They who lived in history seemed to walk the earth again. -Longfellow. We may gather out of history a policy no less wise than eternal. Histories make men wise.-Bacon. Truth comes to us from the past as gold is washed down to us from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles.-Bovee. Examine history, for it is "philosophy teaching by example."-Carlyle. History is the essence of innumerable biographies.-Carlyle. Biography is the most universally pleasant, the most universally profitable, of all reading.-Carlyle. Both justice and decency require that we should bestów on our forefathers an honorable remembrance.- Thucydides. "If history is important, biography is equally so, for biography is but history individualized. In the former we have the episodes and events illustrated by communities, peoples, states, nations. In the latter we have the lives and characters of individual men shaping events, and becoming instructors of future generations." iv |