The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

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

The history of art is the history of revivals.