Famous quotes containing the words air, force, base and/or history:
“Ancient history has an air of antiquity. It should be more modern. It is written as if the specator should be thinking of the backside of the picture on the wall, or as if the author expected that the dead would be his readers, and wished to detail to them their own experience.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“America is a model of force and freedom & moderation—with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)