It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
Money will buy money's worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it?
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.