Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.