To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.
History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with their own great themes.
Incongruity is the mainspring of laughter.