No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

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

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

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.