Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects. – Herodotus, The History of Herodotus

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. – Aristotle