To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokeHistory is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount BolingbrokeThere is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that it is hardly worth while to be here at all.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke