Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.
G. M. TrevelyanThere is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.
G. M. TrevelyanThe best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.
G. M. TrevelyanWhat is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good book from its author, even if he knows from the beginning exactly what he wants to say. A limpid style is invariably the result of hard labour, and the easily flowing connection of sentence with sentence and paragraph with paragraph has always been won by the sweat of the brow.
G. M. Trevelyan