God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion.
Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such.
There is no bore like a clever bore.
From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.