Empire/definition

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or definition:

“Positively I sit here, and look at Europe sink, first one deck disappearing, then another, and the whole ship slowly plunging bow-down into the abyss; until the nightmare gets to be howling. The Roman Empire was a trifle to it.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

“One definition of man is “an intelligence served by organs.””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)