When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The marvelous thing is that for thousands of years people have continued questioning and searching and ultimately concluding that reasons for certain occurrences are not given to man to know.
Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one hundred years, I will be 118 years old.
Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years. So even if I was on the right track, I could be living in the wrong century.
It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.
We should keep in mind that it is easy to concoct stories explaining the past or to become confident about dubious scenarios of the future. We should view both explanations and prophecies with skepticism.
Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.
The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.