Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

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

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

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one read more

Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause read more

For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.

The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.