As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

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

If it were worth while to argue a paradox, one might maintain that nature regards the female as the essential, the male as the superfluity of her world. Perhaps the best starting-point for study of the Virgin would be a practical acquaintance with bees, and especially with queen bees.

They know enough who know how to learn.