That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

Bethink you of the blessedness. Every wife is like the Mother of God and has the hope of bearing a saviour of mankind.

To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice. It is never a question of who is right but what is right.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

I wondered whether the scientific modern brain could not get to the stage of realising that Space is not an empty homogeneous medium, but full of intricate differences, intelligible and real, though not with our common reality.