It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

Without passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

The individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.

somewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.

It should be the historian's business not to belittle but to illuminate the greatness of man's spirit.