There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.

A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.

To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.