History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Demeter, Aphrodite, and the last and greatest deity of all, the Virgin.

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society.

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

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.