Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

It is, for example, axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time: conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.

To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.