Famous quotes containing the words watch, foundation and/or history:
“Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us,
Burns, Shelley, were with us—they watch from their graves!”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“The foundation of empire is art & science. Remove them or degrade them, & the empire is no more. Empire follows art & not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)
“All things are moral. That soul, which within us is a sentiment, outside of us is a law. We feel its inspiration; out there in history we can see its fatal strength.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)