Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.