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

For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

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.

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.

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.