"It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"

"Beware of the person of one book"

"A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect"