Historical investigation has for its aim to fix the order and character of events throughout past time and in all places. The task is frankly superhuman.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.

We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.