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.

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

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

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

History, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.

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