Ignorance Is The Dominion Of Absurdity.

To Be Enthusiastic About Doing Much With Human Nature Is A Foolish Business Indeed; And, Throwing Himself Into His Work As He Was Doing, And Expecting So Much From It, Would Not The Tide Ebb As Strongly As It Was Flowing? It Is A Rash Game This Setting Our Hearts On Any Future Beyond What We Have Our Own Selves Control Over. Things Do Not Walk As We Settle With Ourselves They Ought To Walk, And To Hope Is Almost The Correlative Of To Be Disappointed.

The Best That We Can Do For One Another Is To Exchange Our Thoughts Freely; And That, After All, Is About All.

Philosophy Goes No Further Than Probabilities, And In Every Assertion Keeps A Doubt In Reserve.

There Are Epidemics Of Nobleness As Well As Epidemics Of Disease.

The First Duty Of An Historian Is To Be On His Guard Against His Own Sympathies...