Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.

Daniel Webster (1782-1852): Address on laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker Hill Monument, 1825. Vol. i. p. 78.

  An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.

Pliny The Younger (61-105 a d): Letters. Book ii. Letter xv. 1.