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 siècle qu'il devint impossible de soutenir l'authenticité des fausses décretales, des Constitutions apostoliques, des Récognitions Clémentines, du faux Ignace, du pseudo-Dionys, et de 1'immense fatras d'œuvres anonymes ou pseudonymes qui grossissait souvent du tiers ou de la moitié l'héritage littéraire des auteurs les plus considérables.—, Témoins anténicéens de la Trinité, 1883, 36.

A man who does not know what has been thought by those who have gone before him is sure to set an undue value upon his own ideas.—, Memoirs, 78.

Travailler à discerner, dans cette discipline, le solide d'avec le frivole, le vrai d'avec le vraisemblable, la science d'avec l'opinion, ce qui forme le jugement d'avec ce qui ne fait que charger la mémoire.—, Connoissance de soi-même, v. 459.

All our hopes of the future depend on a sound understanding of the past.—, The Meaning of History, 6.

The real history of mankind is that of the slow advance of resolved deed following laboriously just thought; and all the greatest men live in their purpose and effort more than it is possible for them to live in reality.—The things that actually happened were of small consequence the thoughts that were developed are of infinite consequence.—. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its value.—, Works, v. 131.