Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

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

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

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

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