Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal processโโwhich is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake.
Lytton StracheyIgnorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Lytton StracheyWith a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
Lytton Strachey