"Every historian discloses a new horizon...." - Quote by George Sand

“Simplicity, a delicate silence about oneself, increases their worth and makes one love those whom one admires.”

“Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable.”

“I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one.”

“It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.”

“I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I am, are in fact the same in the mind ofDescartes, and in that of St. Augustine, who said the same thing twelve hundred years before.”

“The only persons who really changed history are those who changed men's thinking about themselves.”

“In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on the ground, my holder, or tablecloth, afforded me as much entertainment, in fact answered the same purpose as the Iliad.”

“Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.”

“When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.”