The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of
furnishing very few materials for history, which is read more

The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of
furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little
more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.

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.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

And history with all her volumes vast,
Hath but one page.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men read more

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.