G. M. Trevelyan

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

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

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

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.