It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

I reckon I am a smart aleck, but it is just a way to pass the time.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

There was nothing particularly wrong with them; they were just the ordinary garden variety of human garbage.

We are the prisoners of history. Or are we?

And what we students of history always learn is that the human being is a very complicated contraption and that they are not good or bad but are good and bad and the good comes out of the bad and the bad out of the good, and the devil take the hindmost.