History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.

There are some men who are witty when they are in a bad humor, and others only when they are sad.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

Without duty, life is soft and boneless.

Men must be either the slaves of duty, or the slaves of force.

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.