Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

- Henry Thomas Buckle

The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are p…

- Henry Thomas Buckle

Sir, the slowness of genius is hard to bear, but the slowness of mediocrity is insufferable.

- Henry Thomas Buckle

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap…

- Henry Thomas Buckle

That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some of the most beau…

- Henry Thomas Buckle

He who knows most believes the least.

- Henry Thomas Buckle

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

- Henry Thomas Buckle

In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch o…

- Henry Thomas Buckle

First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.

- Henry Thomas Buckle