“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies...” — Edward Gibbon Quote

“History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.”

“Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.”

“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”

“Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.”

“The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.”

“I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.”

“People in millenniums ahead will know what we were like in the 1930's and the thing that, the important major things that shaped our history at that time. This is as important for historic reasons as any other.”

“Magna Carta only came into being in 1217, when the wording had been changed and parts of the original were extended in the Charter of the Forests. This complementary charter covered liberties granted to the common man, including rights to the commons, grazing, fishing, water, and firewood, and was perhaps the first ecological charter in history.”

“I studied history when I was at school, at A-level, actually. I wouldn't profess to being very knowledgeable though, no.”

“It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.”

“You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.”