Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

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.

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

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

Few of us take the pains to study the origin of our cherished convictions.

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.

Each of us is great insofar as we perceive and act on the infinite possibilities which lie undiscovered and unrecognized about us.