“There's nothing to get out of life; there are ways to live it.”

Distinguishing what life gives us from the manner in which we choose to live it · Letter to his mother, 12 May 1904

• Life
• Wisdom

“You refer to the last thing excavated on classic soil, my own torso. It proves not to be an antique at all, but a work of a New England sculptor who was wrecked in a dory off the Peloponnesian Coast.”

A wry, self-deprecating picture of his divided classical, European and New England identity · Letter to Henry Adams, 1903

• Culture
• Humour
• Identity