No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.