"A veteran artist counsels a less experienced one to start a painting using colors in the middle range so that the painter can move to more extreme colors as the work progresses."

"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"

"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.” Their"

"The clock would be simple if you destroyed all the wheels . . . but it would not tell the time of day.” On"

"Make business first, pleasure afterward, and that guarded. All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others. He made a point of treating"

"He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss)."

"It is in Paris that the beating of Europe’s heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities." - Victor Hugo"

"The study of history is an antidote to the hubris of the present – the idea that everything we have, everything we do and everything we think is the ultimate, the best."

"Patience which I assure you requires more force of character than does action."

"Marinate your mind"

"Adams was both a devout Christian and an independent thinker, and he saw no conflict in that."

"Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more."

"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."

"Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind,"

"Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots,” and"

"Because it’s of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished."

"The only way to compose myself and collect my thoughts," he wrote in his diary,"is to set down at my table, place my diary before me, and take my pen into my hand."

"A man who will steal for me will steal from me." Theodore Roosevelt, dismissing on the spot one of his best cowhands who was about to claim for his boss an unmarked animal."

"Vivez joyeux” was the old saying. “Live joyfully."

"I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live."

"As the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"

"There are no people on earth in whom a spirit of enthusiastic zeal is so readily kindled, and burns so remarkably, as Americans"

"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."

"In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they were, and not as he would wish them to be, was one of his salient strengths."