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.
C. V. Wedgwoodsomewhere about the eighteenth century, history tacitly replaced religion as the school of public morals.
C. V. WedgwoodGeneral knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
C. V. WedgwoodWithout passion there might be no errors, but without passion there would certainly be no history.
C. V. Wedgwood