Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned,-the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.

History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.

Great men are almost always bad men.

Liberty is the prevention of control by others. This requires self-control and, therefore, religious and spiritual influences; education, knowledge, well-being.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

A man can be trusted only up to low-water mark.

The common vice of democracy is disregard for morality.