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

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.

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

Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

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

History being the record of human action is a richly variegated material, and it is not easy to give a true impression of the stuff by snipping off an inch or two for a pattern.