So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts the most precarious hearsays, others turn facts into falsehood; and both are exaggerated by posterity.

What is today supported by precedents will hereafter become a precedent.

Abuse, if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated you will be thought to have deserved it.

He had talents equal to business, and aspired no higher.

Much suspected by me, Nothing proved can be, Quoth Elizabeth prisoner.

'Det finns ingenting som inte hant, men mycket som inte berattats.'

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and the most faithful autobiography is likely to mirror less w…