"No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men."
"History is the essence of innumerable biographies."
"There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed." vol. iv. Sir Walter Scott
"What is all knowledge too but recorded experience, and a product of history; of which, therefore, reasoning and belief, no less than action and passion, are essential materials?" On History
~ Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) Scottish philosopher, writer, teacher. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Third Edition.
