The costliest myth of our time has been the myth of the Communist monolith..

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality..

Wisdom - meaning judgment acting on experience, common sense, available knowledge, and a decent appreciation of probability..

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general..

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed..

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century..

Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civil….

No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead..

To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication..

While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscru….

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female..

The poets have familiarized more people with history than have the historians..

The power to command frequently causes failure to think..

Confronted by menace, or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, define it..

Historians who stuff in every item of research they have found, every shoelace and telephone call of a biographical subject, are not doing the hard w….

In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of bachelor independence. T….

Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write lumpishly, dully, in prose the reader must plod through like wet sand….

Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible..

If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will ….

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience of her Kin….

Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print..