Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.

The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously... It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.