A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. – Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history. – Alphonse de Lamartine

The worlds battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history. – Henry Ward Beecher