History is as much an art as a science.

All history is incomprehensible without Christ.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

None of the miracles with which ancient histories are filled, occurred under scientific conditions. Observation never once contradicted, teaches us that miracles occur only in periods and countries in which they are believed in and before persons disposed to believe in them.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

Getting its history wrong is part of being a nation.