The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.
Henry David ThoreauHistory has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?
Henry David Thoreau