"There is a history in all men's..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.”

“Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.”

“See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath!He that but fears the thing he would not know,Hath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,That what he feared is chanced.”

“What an age experiences as evil is usually an untimely reverberation echoing what was previously experienced as good--the atavismof an older ideal.”

“History is written by the victors.”

“I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.”

“A youth is to be regarded with respect.”

“That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.”

“The past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.”