“It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.”

“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies ”

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.”

“The history of art is the history of revivals”

“The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.”

“Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn”