We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

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

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

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.