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

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

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

- Henry Thomas Buckle

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

- 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

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

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

Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about per…

- Henry Thomas Buckle