The muffled tongue of Big Ben tolled nine by the clock as the cortege left the palace, but on history's clock it was sunset, and the sun of the old world was setting in a dying blaze of splendor never to be seen again.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

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

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

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

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.