Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written.

historical research of the truly scholastic kind is not connected with human beings at all. It is a pure study, like higher mathematics.

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

the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.

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

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

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