The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

the pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

The pitfall of the feminist is the belief that the interests of men and women can ever be severed; that what brings sufferings to the one can leave the other unscathed.

There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.