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

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

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

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.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.