Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished read more

Mythology: the body of a primitive people's beliefs, concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deitits and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.

Don't brood on what's past, but never forget it either.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

You can't set a hen in one morning and have chicken salad for lunch.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the read more

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

History is something that never happened, written by a man who wasn't there.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent.

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

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

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.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.

The historian sees backward. In the end he also believes backward.