History teaches everything, even the future.
There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.
The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.