History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

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.

You can recognize a saint by the wounds they don't disguise.

The rest is silence.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Our greatest concern is moving away from Christ as Lord.

A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab.

We are at this weird moment where there's an economic model that supports creativity. People are demanding something new and fresh.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

Moral power is always more dangerous to an oppressor than political force.

The coolest thing is that my sister and I, you know, we've done what a lot of people have not been able to do. Which is to have our own careers, together.