I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

Without training, they lacked knowledge. Without knowledge, they lacked confidence. Without confidence, they lacked victory.

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.

A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

If I fail it is only because I have too much pride and ambition.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army

Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.

Unicorns aren't magical and beautiful. They're just predatory horses that have horns and love to eat virgins.

Almost all the time, you tell yourself you're loving somebody when you're just using them.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.