History is only a value of relation.
The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught.
Friends are born, not made.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.
My own conclusion is that history is simply social development along the lines of weakest resistance, and that in most cases the line of weakest resistance is found as unconsciously by society as by water.