The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred.

Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

It is not lawful or proper for you to know everything.

The world is fleeting; all things pass away; Or is it we that pass and they that stay?

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

The industry needs transforming. It’s for others to decide whether they want to get stuck in the past or whether they want to come on the journey.