Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.
A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore
Minds differ still more than faces.