One Sought Not Absolute Truth. One Sought

The Chief Wonder Of Education Is That It Does Not Ruin Everybody Concerned In It, Teachers And Taught.

The Great Word Evolution Had Not Yet, In 1860, Made A New Religion Of History, But The Old Religion Had Preached The Same Doctrinefor A Thousand Years Without Finding In The Entire History Of Rome Anything But Flat Contradiction.

I Would Rather Starve And Rot And Keep The Privilege Of Speaking The Truth As I See It, Than Of Holding All The Offices That Capital Has To Give From The Presidency Down.

The Social Side Of Washington Was To Be Taken For Granted As Three-fourths Of Existence. Politics And Reform Became The Detail, And Waltzing The Profession

History Is A Tangled Skein That One May Take Up At Any Point, And Break When One Has Unravelled Enough.