Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or venture:
“An empire is an immense egotism.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is not quite safe to send out a venture in this kind, unless yourself go supercargo. Where a man goes, there he is; but the slightest virtue is immovable,—it is real estate, not personal; who would keep it, must consent to be bought and sold with it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)