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

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

[T]he obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

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

We seem to be afflicted by a widespread and eroding reluctance to take any stand on any values, moral, behavioral or esthetic.