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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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