Famous quotes containing the words light and/or pieces:
“Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“America was too big to have been discovered all at one time. It would have been better for the graces if it had been discovered in pieces of about the size of France or Germany at a time.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)