In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

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

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

History is only a value of relation.

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.