"Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion."

"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on."

"Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture."

"Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture."

"The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations."

"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future."

"I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies."

"History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim."