Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

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

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.