The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
Completeness is rare in history.
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.