"To play King Richard to somebody else's Wat Tyler has always been a Tory fancy."

"The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find ano…"

"It was one of Lord Salisbury's paradoxes that only uncontentious legislation should be brought before Parliament: if …"

"To attend a place of worship, to abstain from spirits, to read a serious newspaper and put money in the savings bank,…"

"Of historic method, indeed, nothing wiser has ever been said than a word which will be found in Gibbon's youthful Ess…"

"A historian should "go on reading (...) until you can hear people talking. Then you will understand why things happen…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"