The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoug...
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.