John Robert Seeley Quotes

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

History is the school of statesmanship.