I will not by the noise of bloody wars and the dethroning of kings advance you to glory: but by the gentle ways of peace and love.
Source: Centuries, First Century, no. 4 (written c. 1672; first published 1908).
-- Thomas Traherne, ( 1637-1674), English poet, mystic; He wrote Roman Forgeries, 1673 and Christian Ethicks, 1675.