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.

In the United States we have a society pervaded from top to bottom by contempt for the law.

Completeness is rare in history.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.