G. M. Trevelyan

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

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.

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

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

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

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.