Famous quotes containing the words empire, age and/or discovery:
“There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)