To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.

The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.