In a certain sense all men are historians.
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Macaulay is well for awhile, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.