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.

The mind resorts to reason for want of training.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

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