To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

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

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.

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians.

It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.

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