History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

Resistance, which is the function of conservatism, is essential to orderly advance.

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth 'at the wrong time' (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.