"His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction."

"Human beings, like plans, prove fallible in the presence of those ingredients that are missing in maneuvers - danger, death, and live ammunition."

"Everything interested him and everything excited him."

"House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself."

"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."

"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

"All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre."

"No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision."

"Any person who considers himself, and intends to remain, a member of Western society inherits the Western past from Athens and Jerusalem to Runnymede and Valley Forge, as well as to Watts and Chicago of August 1968. He may ignore it or deny it, but that does not alter the fact. The past sits back and smiles and knows it owns him anyway."

"He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea."

"Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher."

"England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last."

"Connection" was the cement of the governing class."

"Blinker Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy."

"Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government."