Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books |
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books |
He that can work is born to be king of something. |
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. |
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men. |
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers |
History is the distillation of rumor. |
History is the essence of innumerable biographies |
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. |
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. |
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen. |
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. |
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it. |
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am. |
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less |