When I want to read a novel, I write one.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

England does not love coalitions.

No man will treat with indifference the principle of race. It is the key to history, and why history is often so confused is that it has been written by men who are ignorant of this principle and all the knowledge it involves. . . Language and religion do not make a race--there is only one thing which makes a race, and that is blood.

Change is constant in a progressive country.

Customs may not be as wise as laws, but they are always more popular.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.