[P]olitical and social and scientific values ... should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did on….

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 prof….

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking ….

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 ques….

The mind resorts to reason for want of training..

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless..

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man..

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops..

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

The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin..

No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money..

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems..

The People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may b….

Energy is the inherent effort of every multiplicity to become unity..

Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would makemoney by it in this….

The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to hav….

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous..

One could not stay a month without loving the shabby town.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea..

Friends are born, not made..

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers..