Friday, March 1/2013

"The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the world; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman. --All our religion, almost all our law, almost all that sets us above the savages has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." - Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson (though looking a little less PC than Boswell may have seen fit to worry about).