A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

On the whole, I would bid you stand up to your work, whatever it may be, and not be afraid of it; not in sorrows or contradictions to yield, but to push on towards the goal.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.