The French dine to gratify, we to appease appetite, observed John Sanderson. We demolish dinner, they eat it. The general misconception back home was that French food was highly seasoned, but not at a...
The man who wishes to keep at the problem long enough to really learn anything positively must not take dangerous risks. Carelessness and overconfidence are usually more dangerous than deliberately ac...
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
Rather than literally burning the midnight oil, which he judged to be unhealthy, John Adams advised his son to make the most of college by developing an inquisitive outlook that would prompt him to ge...
We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.
The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can dis...
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few vic...
All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden to others. -Bishop Milton Wright
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to
Let the children have their night of fun and laughter. Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the...
How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?
Government is nothing more than the combined force of society or the united power of the multitude for the peace, order, safety, good, and happiness of the people... There is no king or queen bee dist...
George P. A. Healy; I knew no one in France, I was utterly ignorant of the language, I did not know what I should do when once there; but I was not yet one-and-twenty, and I had a great stock of coura...
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
In an exhibition wherein paintings of nudes were commonplace, that of Madame Gautreau in her black evening dress was considered scandalously erotic. -from The Greater Journey
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.", NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003)
You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture.You've got to become them.(Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)
It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities. - Victor Hugo
Measurements "are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors.