The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

Many's the man/ who thought himself wise/ but what he needed/ he did not know...

I love Shark Week, where all kids under 12 swim for free

For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.

Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations.

The Simpsons was pretty experimental at the time, but it attracted a lot of sitcom writers that felt confined by the limitations of live-action sitcoms in the '80s.

To be able to share in another's joy, that is the secret of happiness.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us: nor is it to be wondered at in children, who better understand what they see, than what they hear.

When I reach puberty I'm definitely going to grow a beard.

The joy of the Lord is your strength.

I know what to do and I go and execute.