Famous quotes containing the words architecture, empire and/or period:
“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
“It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“There is a period in the history of the individual, as of the race, when the hunters are the best men, as the Algonquins called them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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