Morality is a private and costly luxury.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

One friend in a life-time is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.