If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

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

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

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

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

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.