Happy the people whose annals are tiresome..

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally fals….

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in..

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse..

We are human beings, and this is the part of our human nature, that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands..

There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times..

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled..

History is still in large measure poetry to me..

[B]inary opposites fit nicely the formulation of history as written, but they do little to capture the messy, inchoate reality of history as lived..

No matter how carefully records are kept and filed and computerized, they grow fuzzy with time. Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate--like dus….

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technic….

Most of our people have never had it so good..

A poet's autobiography is his poetry. Anything else can only be a footnote..

History is neither written nor made without love or hate..

Too many so-called historians are really 'hysterians'; their thinking is more visceral than cerebral. When their duties as citizens clash with their….

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount..

A woman's whole life is a history of the affections..

The economic interpretation of history does not necessarily mean that all events are determined solely by economic forces. It simply means that econo….

I endeavor to make the most of everything..

If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Ma….

The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meer….