In unphilosophical minds any rare or unexpected thing excites wonder, while in philosophical minds the familiar excites wonder also.

The little word is has its tragedies: it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

Does the thoughtful man suppose that...the present experiment in civilization is the last world we will see?

We do right enough darling, if we go wrong together.

The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

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.