There are some very creative people out there who are like Steven Meisel, and that is why their work is so extraordinary.
Better is half a loaf than no bread.
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Rome was not built in one day.
Fieldes have eies and woods have eares.
No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.
I expressed skepticism, in the first chapter, about the utility of time machines in historical research. I especially advised against graduate students relying on them, because of the limited perspective you tend to get from being plunked down in some particular part of the past, and the danger of not getting back in time for your orals.
One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.
The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.