True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.

To give an accurate description of what never happened is the proper occupation of the historian.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way read more

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

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

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

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.

It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be read more

It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions read more

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.