Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

The truth is, when all is said and done, one does not teach a subject, one teaches a student how to learn it.

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.