There is no country but the heart.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

History is all explained by geography.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

A symbol serves to combine heart and intellect.

All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time.

The asking and the answering which history provides may help us to understand, even to frame, the logic of experience to which we shall submit. History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future.