Tag: Henry St. John

Truth dies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

They make truth serve as a stalking-horse to error.

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke

I have read somewhere or other — in Dionysius of

Halicarnassus, I think — that History is Philosophy

teaching by examples.

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke

What a world is this, and how does fortune banter us!

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke