Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.
Can't disagree with the need for a grasp of history.
It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Death is a distant rumor to the young.
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
Death by starvation is slow.
There is nothing glamorous about death.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
There is no education like adversity.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
Power is the great aphrodisiac.
People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
Comedy is a great slayer of rogues in power.
