The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.

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

History is the most aristocratic of all literary pursuits, because it obliges the historian to be rich as well as educated.

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.