A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it.

Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature.