As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use.
The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.
It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.
Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.
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.