To write history, one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary should be free from all pre-occupation of interest or of vanity.

To seduce a wife from her husband, or a son from his father, are odious acts, unworthy of civilised nations.

Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours.

To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which sim…

Each one writes history according to his convenience.

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.