“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”

“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”

“Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.”

“Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”

“Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.”

“One half who graduate from college never read another book.”

“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 thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.”