If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

I have always felt like an artist when I work on a book. I see no reason why the word should always be confined to writers of fiction and poetry.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.

I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.

What his imagination is to the poet, facts are to the historian. His exercise of judgment comes in their selection, his art in their arrangement.

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.