I've got the strangest build. It's big in the hips, small in the waist and I've got these enormous. . . shoulders.
It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.
An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.
History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only.
Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.
A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
Whoever does not hold his tongue cannot understand his deen.
Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me.
It's going to be a little further for me to take my children, but the Montessori has been good for my children so I'm willing to take them further. I think it will be a good thing to keep them in the program.