We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposes to rob us of their companionship. It is obviously not the ideas themselves that are dear to us, but our self-esteem, which is threatened.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but if someone tries to take them from us, we defend them with almost an illicit passion.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.

To become historically-minded is to be grown-up.