No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt
I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home. – William Hazlitt
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape. – William Hazlitt
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead. – E.M. Forster, Abinger Harvest