Benjamin Disraeli: “Such a tenet would sully and impugn the doctrine that is the corner-stone of our faith and hope.”

It should not be forgotten that the most authentic and interesting histories are those which have been composed by actors in the transactions which they record.

There cannot be two moralities; and to hold that the Second Person of the Holy Trinity could teach a different morality from that which had been already revealed by the First Person of the Holy Trinity, is a dogma so full of terror that it…

These outrages were never insurrectionary: they were not directed against existing authorities; they were stimulated by no public cause or clamour; it was the private individual who was attacked, and for a private reason.

All the fruits of his laborious investigations were always at the service of his friends without reserve or self-consideration.