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

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

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

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

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

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.

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