The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened. - Luciano Pavarotti

These men seem not to know that poetry has its particular rules and precepts; and that history is governed by others directly opposite.

One of the very best things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

I say, therefore, that he who would write history well must be possessed of these two principal qualifications, a fine understanding and a good style: one is the gift of nature, and cannot be taught; the other may be acquired by frequent exercise, perpetual labour and an emulation of the ancients.