Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Few men can afford to be angry.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.