The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.