“I will only mention that the independent power of words to affect the writing of history is a thing to be watched out for. They have an almost frightening autonomous power to produce in the mind of the reader an image or idea that was not in the mind of the writer. Obviously they operate this way in all forms of writing, but history is particularly sensitive because one has a duty to be accurate, and careless use of words can leave a false impression one had not intended.”

“Books are humanity in print.”

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.”

“They resented the patronage they depended upon.”

“Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.”

“Extravagant sartorial display had a purpose. It created the impression of wealth and power on the opponent and pride in the wearer which has been lost sight of in our nervously egalitarian times.”

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

“Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.”

“Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals.”

“The greatness of the object enabled my mind to support what my strengths of body was scarce equal to.”

“These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle”