Genuine historical knowledge requires nobility of character, a profound understanding of human existence - not detachment and objectivity.

The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie.

Sometimes in conversation the sound of our own voice distracts us and misleads us into making assertions that in no way express our true opinions.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

The machine is impersonal, it takes the pride away from a piece of work, the individual merits and defects that go along with allwork that is not done by a machine--which is to say, its little bit of humanity.