The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

To rush in upon an event before its significance has had time to separate from the surrounding circumstances may be enterprising, but is it useful? ... The recent prevalence of these hot histories on publishers' lists raises the question: Should - or perhaps can - history be written while it is still smoking?

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.