To Be A Really Good Historian Is

Nobles By The Right Of An Earlier Creation, And Priests By The Imposition Of A Mightier Hand.

How It Chanced That A Man Who Reasoned On His Premises So Ably, Should Assume His Premises So Foolishly, Is One Of The Great Mysteries Of Human Nature.

Language Is The Machine Of The Poet.

A Government Cannot Be Wrong In Punishing Fraud Or Force, But It Is Almost Certain To Be Wrong If, Abandoning Its Legitimate Function, It Tells Private Individuals That It Knows Their Business Better Than They Know It Themselves.

We Must Succumb To The General Influence Of The Times. No Man Can Be Of The Tenth Century, If He Would; Be Must Be A Man Of The Nineteenth Century.