I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.
Civilisation is a conspiracy.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
Without humility there can be no humanity.