Won Academy

Famous quotes containing the words won and/or academy:

“After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

“When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)