The Desire Of Posthumous Fame And The

A Perfect Historian Must Possess An Imagination Sufficiently Powerful To Make His Narrative Affecting And Picturesque; Yet He Must Control It So Absolutely As To Content Himself With The Materials Which He Finds, And To Refrain From Supplying Deficiencies By Additions Of His Own. He Must Be A Profound And Ingenious Reasoner; Yet He Must Possess Sufficient Self-command To Abstain From Casting His Facts In The Mould Of His Hypothesis.

The Great Cause Of Revolutions Is This, That While Nations Move Onward, Constitutions Stand Still.

I Am Always Nearest To Myself," Says The Latin Proverb.

A Page Digested Is Better Than A Volume Hurriedly Read.

A Man Who Should Act, For One Day, On The Supposition That All The People About Him Were Influenced By The Religion Which They Professed Would Find Himself Ruined By Night.