Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.