The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.