“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
“No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.”
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history... It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
“See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.”
“See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.”
“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature.”