In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.

Genius has no age, no country, no race; it belongs to mankind.

Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered.

Exaggerated self-importance is deemed an individual fault, but a racial virtue.

All great people glorify their history and look back upon their early attainments with a spiritualized vision.

If initiative is the ability to do the right thing, then efficiency is the ability to do the thing right.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.

No American can read the story of the part America took in the war without experiencing a glow of patriotic feeling. Every Allied nation can say the same thing.

The Best of the artist's art, which will one day be in a Museum wall, the Painting that sets the artist apart of all other artist artists.

The end of labor is to gain leisure.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.

Music is just kind of an expression of who I am. It's what I do.

Most nations have some type of creation story.

The one cool thing with getting older is that you can actively choose to just be an eccentric.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity

You may own a cat, but cannot govern one.

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.

I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.