It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.

In England, life is a long process of composing oneself.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.