Man can learn everything if he will but try.

We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.

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.

Pity wraps the student of the past in an ambrosial cloud, and washes his limbs with eternal youth.