Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself..

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it..

Nothing is easier than to teach historical method, but, when learned, it has little use..

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it..

In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not m….

For after all man knows mighty little, and may some day learn enough of his own ignorance to fall down again and pray. Not that Icare. Only, if such ….

The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught..

An artist's business is only to see..

Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, we….

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….

Mathematicians practice absolute freedom..

You may cut off the heads of every rich man now living--of every statesman--every literary, and every scientific authority, without in the least chan….

The scientific mind is atrophied, and suffers under inherited cerebral weakness, when it comes in contact with the eternal woman--Astarte, Isis, Deme….

The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which….

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels..

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education..

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself..

Although the Senate is much given to admiring in its members a superiority less obvious or quite invisible to outsiders, one Senator seldom proclaims….

History is only a value of relation..

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic..