Famous quotes containing the words true and/or histories:
“Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)