K is for “Kenghis Khan.” He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere. – Harlan Ellison, From A to Z in the Chocolate Alphabet
We endeavor more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in mens mouths, in what manner soever. It stemma that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other mens keeping. – Michel de Montaigne
When we skim along the surface of history we see little but the rough barren rocks that rise out of it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers