History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always read more

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

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.

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.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills, and proclamations.

How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.

How many pens are broken, how many ink bottles consumed, to write about things that have never happened.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.

90% of my time is spent on 10% of the world.