Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

And I have by me, for my comfort, two strange white flowers - shriveled now, and brown and flat and brittle - to witness that even when mind and strength had gone, gratitude and a mutual tenderness still lived on in the heart of men.

The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.

I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.