Human beings of any age need to approve of themselves; the bad times in history come when they cannot.

Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.

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

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

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

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.