History is only a value of relation.

I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.

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

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

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

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.