I want to be advertised and the easiest way is to do something obnoxious and do it well.

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.

History is only a value of relation.

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.