The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

We shall some day catch an abstract truth by the tail, and then we shall have our religion and our immortality.