History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
The sound of the drum drives out thought; for that very reason it is the most military of instruments.