George S. HillardThinkers

Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions ; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left In safety without occupation : the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

Occupation (job) is the armor of the soul.

A Statesman is distinguished from the politician in the the statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

War 1s 2bject is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.