Russians, in the knowledge of inexhaustible supplies of manpower, are accustomed to accepting gigantic fatalities with comparative calm.

The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

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

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

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

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

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?