The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

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

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.

History is only a value of relation.

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town