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

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

— Carlyle

There is properly no history, only biography.

— Emerson

During Alexander the Great's conquest, he faced a challenge when Tyre was an island. He solved this by using the rubble …

— Unknown

Albert Buckner Coe gives us this incident: ‘When the body of Abraham Lincoln lay in state in Cleveland during the course…

How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not …

— Everett C. Herrick