There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

Power is of its nature evil, whoever wields it.

There might be a fact of the greatest significance reported by Thucydides which will only be recognized as such a hundred years from now.

Neither in the life of the individual nor in that of mankind is it desirable to know the future.

True universality does not consist in knowing much but in loving much.

To each eye, perhaps, the outlines of a great civilization present a different picture. In the wide ocean upon which we venture, the possible ways and directions are many; and the same studies which have served for my work might easily, in other hands, not only receive a wholly different treatment and application, but lead to essentially different conclusions.

History is still in large measure poetry to me.