Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the way of truth.

Since we have a good loaf, let us not look for cheesecakes.

Man appoints, and God disappoints.

The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.

Urgent necessity prompts many to do things, at the very thoughts of which they perhaps would start at other times.

I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.