Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.
A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile
Discretion is not the better part of biography.
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.