Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

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

History is only a value of relation.

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.