Comparisons Are Odious.

It Is One Thing To Write As Poet And Another To Write As A Historian: The Poet Can Recount Or Sing About Things Not As They Were, But As They Should Have Been, And The Historian Must Write About Them Not As They Should Have Been, But As They Were, Without Adding Or Subtracting Anything From The Truth.

Truth Will Rise Above Falsehood As Oil Above Water.

The Man Who Is Prepared Has His Battle Half Fought.

When The Head Aches, All The Members Partake Of The Pain.

The Poet May Say Or Sing, Not As Things Were, But As They Ought To Have Been; But The Historian Must Pen Them, Not As They Ought To Have Been, But As They Really Were.