If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Liberty and good government do not exclude each other; and there are excellent reasons why they should go together. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.