Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact than the richest...
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.
