“Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway.”

“Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway.”

“Books are humanity in print.”

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”

“They resented the patronage they depended upon.”

“Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.”

“Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.”

“Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.”

“Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.”

“Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.”

“The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.”

“These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle”