If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,-and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking, - the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.

I am the blank page between the Old and the New Testament.