We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.