A Beggarly People, A Church And No

More Sinners Are Cursed At Not Because We Despise Their Sins But Because We Envy Their Success At Sinning.

To Be A Really Good Historian Is Perhaps The Rarest Of Intellectual Distinctions.

There Was, It Is Said, A Criminal In Italy Who Was Suffered To Make His Choice Between Guicciardini And The Galleys. He Chose The History. But The War Of Pisa Was Too Much For Him; He Changed His Mind, And Went To The Oars.

Was None Who Would Be Foremost To Lead Such Dire Attack; But Those Behind Cried "forward!" And Those Before Cried "back!

The Most Beautiful Object In The World, It Will Be Allowed, Is A Beautiful Woman.