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

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

General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.

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

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.

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance; he is perpetually confronted with his own humiliating inability to interpret his material correctly; he is, in a sense that no other writer is, in bondage to that material.

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