In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.
Never criticize the composition of a Royal Highness. You never know who may have written it.
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.