Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain; we cannot put them asunder.

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

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

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

A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.

My own varying estimates of the facts themselves, as the years passed, showed me too clearly how much of history must always rest in the eye of the beholder; our deductions are so often different it is impossible they should always be right.