The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had read more

History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

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

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

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.

I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,.

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

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

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.