That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
A fool tries to look different: a clever man looks the same and is different.
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.
We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.
The book trade is a spiritual barometer of a nations well-being.