Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

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

Boys naturally look on all force as an enemy.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.

Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.