Good historians, I suspect, whether they think about it or not, have the future in their bones. Besides the question: Why? the historian also asks the question: Whither?

The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

The facts speak only when the historian calls on them: it is he who decides to which facts to give the floor, and in what order or context

Study the historian before you begin to study the facts.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

What distinguishes the historian from the collector of historical facts is generalization.

It is significant that the nationalization of thought has proceded everywhere pari passu with the nationalization of industry.

Good historians...have the future in their bones

Laughter is a very underrated tool for healing.

It is best never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.

When you imitate the enemy's tactics, you take on his liabilities.

Today I must be very careful, today I have left my armor at home.

My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

In the golden lightning Of the sunken sun O'er which clouds are brightening, Thou dost float and run Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun.

Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

When life gives you the opportunity to check off a thing on the bucket list, you have to check them.

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!