"No heart is pure that is not passionate; no virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic. And such an enthusiastic virtue …"

"John the Baptist was like the Emperor Nerva. In his career it was given him to do two things—to inaugurate a new régi…"

"Men in general take up scheme after scheme, as circumstances suggest one or another, and therefore most biographies a…"

"The difficulty of determining whether a man is or is not good has now become a commonplace of moralists and satirists…"

"No man saw the building of the new Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets;…"

"It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical …"

"We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind."

"The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, …"

"Commerce in itself may favour peace, but when commerce is artificially shut out by a decree of Government from some p…"

"Seeley was witty, charming, sympathetic, entirely void of self importance, never making ignorance an excuse for sarca…"