History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

Am I not a man and brother?

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

The most purely free decision one can make—and thus, the highest order of spirit on Earth—is believing in something without evidential knowledge.

Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination.

Watch over me, Father, so that everything I do may be with the intention of pleasing Jesus.

There's no worse crime in journalism these days than simply deciding something's a story because Drudge links to it.

Everything stinks until it's finished.

I’m talking to you more than I speak with my mahmen.” “I thought your mother was dead.” “She is.” “You have a very low standard for communication.

Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.

I will do just as you wish,' said no cat ever.

Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

Study everything, join nothing.