The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.