1. “Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past.”
2. “It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.”
3. “It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.”
4. “Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.”
5. “There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.”
6. “Perhaps the best test of a man’s intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.”
7. “In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.”
8. “A writer’s promise is like a tiger’s smile.”
9. “Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance which simplifies and clarifies, which selects an omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.”
10. “Discretion is not the better part of biography.”
