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

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.

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

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.

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

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