Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never made a mistake in the value he set on the whole, which he symbolized as unity and worshipped as God. To this day, his attitude towards it has never changed, though science can no longer give to force a name.

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

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

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

Intimates are predestined.

Good men do the most harm.