The first duty of an historian is to be on guard against his own sympathies.

In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

I'm a historian in my own mind.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.