“Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.Francis Bacon
“As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.Plutarch
“Your forefathers worked hard, fought hard, and died hard to make this Empire for you. Don’t let them look down from heaven, and see you loafing about with hands in your pockets doing nothing to keep it up.Robert Baden-Powell
“There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam’s profession.William Shakespeare