A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. - Thomas Carlyle

Great men are the inspired (speaking and acting) texts of that divine Book of Revelations, wherof a chapter is completed from epoch to epoch, and by some named History.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity: men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.