The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

We have within us, from the start, that which will distinguish us from the vulgar herd.

History celebrates the battlefields whereon we meet our death, but scorns to speak of the plowed fields whereby we thrive. It knows the names of the king's bastards but cannot tell us the origin of wheat. This is the way of human folly.

If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.

The common people have no history: persecuted by the present, they cannot think of preserving the memory of the past.

Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.