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.

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

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.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

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

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.