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

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

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.

When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of it all some good would accrue to mankind kept men and nations fighting. When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.