"My early years abroad were spent mainly upon the European Continent, and public duties since have led me to make prol…"

"Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who ma…"

"While I have given references which will enable historical students to verify my statements and follow them further, …"

"A thoughtful historian tells us that, between the Middle Ages and the nineteenth century, Italy produced three great …"

"He [Paolo Sarpi] was one of the two foremost Italian statesmen since the Middle Ages, the other being Cavour."

"His [Sarpi's] career soon revealed another cause of his return; he evidently felt the same impulse which stirred his …"

"Of all tyrannies of unreason in the modern world, one holds a supremely evil preeminence. It covered the period from …"

"Into the very midst of all this welter of evil, at a point in time to all appearance hopeless, at a point in space ap…"

"He [Grotius] avoided another danger as serious as his precocity had been. He steered clear of the quicksands of usele…"

"My purpose in writing these essays has been to acquaint men who are interested in the bearings of modern history on p…"