The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.