The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.

The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.

Logicians may reason about abstractions. But the great mass of men must have images. The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle.