[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.
The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.
Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.
To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.