General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.

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.

Michael Varus drew his sword. ''My father is Janus, the god of two faces. I am used to seeing through masks and deceptions.

Gentlemen prefer bonds.

To win this war, we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

Fashion absolutely matters, but it doesn’t matter absolutely.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

Your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.

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