History after all is the true poetry.
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.