I entirely agree that a historian ought to be precise in detail; but unless you take all the characters and circumstances into account, you are reckoning without the facts. The proportions and relations of things are just as much facts as the things themselves.

It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

If you want your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of one's own way forever.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

A woman fit to be a man's wife is too good to be his servant.

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to mislead their weak minds.