The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
This is a fabulous part of world history that most people don't understand.
To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.
And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.