If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.
Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.
History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
The great word Evolution had not yet, in 1860, made a new religion of history, but the old religion had preached the same doctrinefor a thousand years without finding in the entire history of Rome anything but flat contradiction.
As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
All experience is an arch, to build upon.