If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?