No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.

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.

Now they stumbled in the shackles of humanity, lived in a fear that never died, fretted by a law they could not understand; their mock-human existence began in an agony, was one long internal struggle, one long dread of Moreau - and for what? It was the wantonness that stirred me.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

Men who think in lifetimes are of little use to statesmanship.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

A young mistress is better than an old master.