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.

There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.