All history is a Bible--a thing stated in words by me more than once.

History: A distillation of rumor.

Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History-Books.

History, a distillation of rumor.

In a certain sense all men are historians.

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature; his earliest expression of what can be called Thought.