Inventive rhetoric is characteristic of true believers.
In the same five years three new colleges were founded at Cambridge—Trinity, Corpus Christi, and Clare—although love of learning, like love in marriage, was not always the motive. Corpus Christi was f...
Duty was not untinged by ambition.
Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as the most flagrant of all passions.
Were being ravaged by her brother. In their agreement Amadeus
There was no dissent, no strike, no protest, no hesitation to shoulder a rifle against fellow workers of another land. When the call came, the worker, whom Marx declared to have no Fatherland identifi...
Liberality in gifts and expenditure which, since his followers lived off it, was extolled as the most admired attribute of a noble.
When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Two firing squads marched to the center of the square, faced either way and fired till no more of the targets stood upright. Six hundred and twelve bodies were identified and buried, including Felix F...
This was not necessarily a deliberate effort to be offensive; it was normal for General Staff officers to be offensive.
The writer of history, I believe, has a number of duties vis-à-vis the reader, if he wants to keep him reading. The first is to distill. He must do the preliminary work for the reader, assemble the in...
The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and beauty and dark cellars. Its inhabitants lived, as compared to a later tim...
The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey’s speech proved to be one of those junctures by which people afterward date events.
The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change.
That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.
Persian poet said, the rose blooms reddest where some buried Caesar bled. The
Only the Church offered an organizing principle, which was the reason for its success, for society cannot bear anarchy.
Not a passing phenomenon nor an external force, the companies had become a way of life, a part of society itself, used and joined by its rulers even as they struggled to throw them off. They ate at so...
Margery Kempe was obviously an uncomfortable neighbor to have, like all those who cannot conceal the painfulness of life.
In the search for meaning we must not forget that the gods (or God, for that matter) are a concept of the human mind; they are the creatures of man, not vice versa. They are needed and invented to giv...