Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. - Miguel de Cervantes

since historians must and ought to be exact, truthful, and absolutely free of passions, for neither interest, fear, rancor, nor affection should make them deviate from the path of the truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, repository of great deeds, witness to the past, example and adviser to the present, and forewarning to the future.

when a man knows not how to read, or is left-handed, it

... he who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is...