War is the unfolding of miscalculations..

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library..

In America, where the electoral process is drowning in commercial techniques of fund-raising and image-making, we may have completed a circle back to….

When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule..

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost..

After absorbing the news of today, one expects to face a world consisting entirely of strikes, crimes, power failures, broken water mains, stalled tr….

Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves..

Books are humanity in print..

Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is pro….

When people don't have an objective, there's much less dynamic effort, and that makes life a lot less interesting..

His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, ….

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.

Governments do not like to face radical remedies; it is easier to let politics predominate..

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life..

When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the hope that out of ….

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip..

Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French..

For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in..

In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, ….

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire….

Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation i….