It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

History is the daughter of time.

I have a secret love of jazz.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

Moreover, a true Christian will not ascribe any prosperity to his own diligence, industry, or good fortune, but he will acknowledge that God is the author of it.

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.

One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.

We will never have more affection or passion for God than we understand He has for us. We will never be more committed to God than our understanding of His commitment to us.

Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is.

I think you can challenge people, but you don't want to break people down. But you've got to sometimes just pull them aside and say, you know, you're OK but you could be better.

In every case do the opposite to whatever technology does today. Then you will always be on the right track.

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.