Capital Works

Famous quotes containing the words capital and/or works:

    “We make needless ado about capital punishment,—taking lives, when there is no life to take.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and political prodigies, deposited them in great works of art, which still live while states and constitutions have perished, bequeathing to posterity not shameful defects but triumphant successes.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)