"The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire."

"The truth is hidden from us. Even if a mere piece of luck brings us straight to it, we shall have no grounded convict…"

"I now make the only true statement you are to expect – that I am a liar. This confession is, I consider, a full defen…"

"First, then, I went to the Indians, the mightiest nation upon earth. I had little trouble in persuading them to desce…"

"Διττοῦ δὲ ὄντος τοῦ τῆς συμβουλῆς ἔργου, τὰ μὲν γὰρ αἱρεῖσθαι, τὰ δὲ φεύγειν διδάσκει..."

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

"He is unpardonable, therefore, who cannot distinguish one from the other; but lays on history the paint of poetry, it…"

"History, when she adds pleasure to utility, may attract more admirers; though as long as she is possessed of that gre…"

"In history, nothing fabulous can be agreeable."

"Everything has a beauty peculiar to itself; but if you put one instead of another, the most beautiful becomes ugly, b…"