Biography

1. Biography is the only true history.
                                                -Carlyle

2. One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
                                                                                 -Channing

3. Lives of great man all remind us
            We can make our line sublime,
    And, departing, leave behind us
            Footprints on the sand of time.
                                             -Longfellow, A Psalm
                                               of Life

4. To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.
                                                                                     -Plutarch

5.  Every great man now a days has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
                                 -Wilde, The Critic as 
                                  Artist