Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which read more

Anecdotes are the gleaming toys of history. The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.

History, a distillation of rumor.

History, a distillation of rumor.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

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.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

History is a cyclic poem written by time upon the memories of man.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and read more

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a
thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.