Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.