We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.
G. M. TrevelyanIf 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!
G. M. TrevelyanIf the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
G. M. Trevelyan