If you would know what nobody knows, read what everybody reads, just one year afterwards.

You need someone who can inspire you to be what you know you can be

Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward.

All history is biography.

In the sublimest flights of the soul, rectitude is never surmounted, love is never outgrown.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

All history is the decline of war, though the slow decline. All that society has yet gained is mitigation; the doctrine of the right of war still remains.