"If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside."

Next Quote

There are two men in Tolstoy. He is a mystic and he is also a realist. He is addicted to the practice of a pietism that for all its sincerity is nothing if not vague and sentimental; and he is the most acute and dispassionate of observers, the most profound and earnest student of character and emotion.

— William Ernest Henley