Property can exist only under the guardianship of the State. - John Robert Seeley

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

It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future,

No man saw the building of the new Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowel and pickaxe; it descended out of heaven from God.