Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

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.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.

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