Power, Safely Defied, Touches Its Downfall.

To Be A Really Good Historian Is Perhaps The Rarest Of Intellectual Distinctions.

If Ever Shakespeare Rants, It Is Not When His Imagination Is Hurrying Him Along, But When He Is Hurrying His Imagination Along.

I Shall Cheerfully Bear The Reproach Of Having Descended Below The Dignity Of History.

The Saviour Of Mankind Himself, In Whose Blameless Life Malice Could Find No Act To Impeach, Has Been Called In Question For Words Spoken.

No Man Who Is Correctly Informed As To The Past Will Be Disposed To Take A Morose Or Desponding View Of The Present.