When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
History is a science, no more and no less.
I may remind you that history is not a branch of literature. The facts of history, like the facts of geology or astronomy, can supply material for literary art; for manifest reasons they lend themselves to artistic representation far more readily than those of the natural sciences; but to clothe the story of human society in a literary dress is no more the part of a historian as a historian, than it is the part of an astronomer as an astronomer to present in an artistic shape the story of the stars.
The ideal of progress, freedom of thought, and the decline of ecclesiastical power go together.
A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.
Lean on me, when you're not strong and I'll be your friend, I'll help you carry on.
I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.
The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.