Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.

History: A distillation of rumor.

History: A distillation of rumor.

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions read more

The world's history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

I have no history but the length of my bones.

What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]

What more would you have? He has invented history.
[Fr., Que voulez-vous de plus? Il a invente l'histoire.]

What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it read more

What most impresses us about great jurists is not their tenacious grasps of fine points, honed almost to invisibility; it is the moment when we are suddently aware of the sweep and direction of the law, and its place in the lives of men.