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. Wedgwoodthe independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.
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. WedgwoodThe individual - stupendous and beautiful paradox - is at once infinitesimal dust and the cause of all things.
C. V. WedgwoodHistory, in spite of the occasional protest of historians, will always be used in a general way as a collection of political and moral precedents.
C. V. WedgwoodThe 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.
C. V. Wedgwood