[History is] the story of the magnificent rear-guard action fought during several thousand years by dogma against curiosity.

Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us.

There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas; there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas.

Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.