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

[History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over.

O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, t…

So when thou hast, as I Commanded thee, done blabbing - Although to give the lie Deserves no less than stabbing - Stab at thee he that will, No stab the soul c…

I am of course confident that I will fulfil my tasks as a writer in all circumstances - from my grave even more successfully and more irrefutably than in my li…

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…

Et immolantem haruspex Spurinna monuit, caveret periculum, quod non ultra Martias Idus proferretur.