History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?

The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.

The fate of a nation has often depended on the food or bad digestion of a prime minister.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

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.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

And read their history in a nation's eyes.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.