Everything secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity. – Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalberg) Acton
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage – not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage. – Walter Lord
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone
