We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

This is no time to be making new enemies.

History is the lie commonly agreed upon.

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'

One always begins with the simple, then comes the complex, and by superior enlightenment one often reverts in the end to the simple. Such is the course of human intelligence.

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore