the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.