"Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books"

"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"

"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"

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

"History is a set of lies agreed upon"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Years teach us more than books"