The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.

History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

History: A distillation of rumor.

Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.