Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
Pessimism is the one ism which kills the soul.
Without humility there can be no humanity.
History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.