Historians Tell The Story Of

History Is A Novel That Has Been Lived, A Novel Is History That Could Have Been.

Sickness Sensitizes Man For Observation, Like A Photographic Plate.

Princes Enjoy Themselves Like Children In The Company Of Ordinary Human Beings.

One Of The Proud Joys Of The Man Of Letters - If That Man Of Letters Is An Artist - Is To Feel Within Himself The Power To Immortalize At Will Anything He Chooses To Immortalize. Insignificant Though He May Be, He Is Conscious Of Possessing A Creative Divinity. God Creates Lives; The Man Of Imagination Creates Fictional Lives Which May Make A Profound And As It Were More Living Impression On The World's Memory.

If There Is A God, Atheism Must Seem To Him As Less Of An Insult Than Religion.