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

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.