People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.

The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.

Catherine the Great, like others of her kind, did not succeed in imparting greatness to her descendants.

Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.

Few persons can relate the story of their childhood without idealizing, or distorting, or overdramatizing the facts.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

The answer to deep anxiety is the deep adoration of God.

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.

If Shakespeare has not been equalled, he is sure to be surpassed, and surpassed by an American born now or yet to be born.

I love challenges. If you don't have any and can do whatever you want, then it's probably time to die.

Now, as God the maker play'd he taught the game to Nature whom he created in his image; taught her the selfsame game which he played to her.

The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.

I think there's a certain sense of grounding that comes from not being a rich kid from a media-elite school.

To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers.

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.