But then history does not only consist of documents.

Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matter of course.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.

You don't get to be a keeper of the faith without being a keeper of your brother.

Sorrow is a heavy burden

Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

You can't be in debt and win. It doesn't work.

In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Getting older is not something that you're not much concerned with.

It's taken me a lot of years to peel away my own layers.

One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages.