"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not repeat itself. ... Astronomy repeats itself; botany repeats itself; trigonometry repeats itself; mechanics repeats itself; compound long division repeats itself. Every sum if worked out in the same way at any time will bring out the same answer. ... A great many moderns say that history is a science; if so it occupies a solitary and splendid elevation among the sciences; it is the only science the conclusions of which are always wrong.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

This is the age in which thin and theoretic minorities can cover and conquer unconscious and untheoretic majorities.

One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.