The proper study of mankind is woman.

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

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.

Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.

Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.

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

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.