Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

Books are humanity in print.

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

It is wiser, I believe, to arrive at theory by way of evidence rather than the other way around.... It is more rewarding, in any case, to assemble the facts first and, in the process of arranging them in narrative form, to discover a theory or a historical generalization emerging of its own accord.