Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

- William H. Prescott

Where there is no free agency, there can be no morality. Where there is no temptation, there can be little claim to virtue. Where the routine is rigo…

- William H. Prescott

The history of literature is the history of the human mind.

- William H. Prescott

Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric …

- William H. Prescott

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.

- William H. Prescott

The triumphs of the warrior are bounded by the narrow theatre of his own age; but those of a Scott or a Shakspeare will be renewed with greater and g…

- William H. Prescott

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the mater…

- William H. Prescott

No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the dra…

- William H. Prescott