"Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past."

“If you want to experiment, do something temporary.”

“We must not forget either that some of the system's resilience is due to its ability to coopt people with money and prestige. It is easy to get sucked right in. Those who grasp the system are also likely to be talented and capable of doing well within the system. Who will turn down a lot of money? Who doesn't have an ego? A compromise here, another one there, and pretty soon, you are sucked right in.”

“What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself ...”

“Live on Christ's love while ye are here, and all the way.”

“I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.”

Source : Steven Runciman (1951). “A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem”, p.13, CUP Archive

“And as much as I love the gritty characters, I like to play all sorts of characters. I'm an actor. I love to create.”

“The darkness crumbles away It is the same old druid Time as ever.”

Source : 1916 'Break of Day in theTrenches'.

“My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.130