What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

Assassinations has never changed the history of the world.

Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is read more

Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters, and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who make no nuisance of themselves in the world.

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they read more

Now stiff on a pillar with a phallic air nelson stylites in Trafalgar square reminds the British what once they were.