The Proper Study Of Mankind Is Woman.

In Practice, Such Trifles As Contradictions In Principle Are Easily Set Aside; The Faculty Of Ignoring Them Makes The Practical Man.

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.

Charles Sumner's Mind Had Reached The Calm Of Water Which Receives And Reflects Images Without Absorbing Them; It Contains Nothing But Itself.

If Thought Is Capable Of Being Classed With Electricity, Or Will With Chemical Affinity, As A Mode Of Motion, It Seems Necessary To Fall At Once Under The Second Law Of Thermodynamics As One Of The Energies Which Most Easily Degrades Itself, And, If Not Carefully Guarded, Returns Bodily To The Cheaper Form Called Heat. Of All Possible Theories, This Is Likely To Prove The Most Fatal To Professors Of History.

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.