I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

There is no life that does not contribute to history.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed read more

I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags devoid of any admirable human qualities. I failed history.

History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly read more

History: An account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.