The Test Of Civilization Is The Estimate

While We Read History We Make History.

Progress Begins With The Minority. It Is Completed By Persuading The Majority, By Showing The Reason And The Of The Step Forward, And That Is Accomplished By Appealing To The Intelligence Of The Majority.

I Think That To Have Known One Good, Old Man-one Man, Who, Through The Chances And Mischances Of A Long Life, Has Carried His Heart In His Hand, Like A Palm-branch, Waving All Discords Into Peace-helps Our Faith In God, In Ourselves, And In Each Other More Than Many Sermons

True Invective Requires Great Imagination.

In The Journey Of The Year, The Autumn Is Venice, Spring Is Naples, Certainly, And The Majestic Maturity Of Summer Is Rome.