He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Critical acumen is exerted in vain to uncover the past; the past cannot be presented; we cannot know what we are not. But one veilhangs over past, present, and future, and it is the province of the historian to find out, not what was, but what is. Where a battle has been fought, you will find nothing but the bones of men and beasts; where a battle is being fought, there are hearts beating.

Surely joy is the condition of life.