A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults. - G. M. Young

A historian should "go on reading (...) until you can hear people talking. Then you will understand why things happened as they did."

To attend a place of worship, to abstain from spirits, to read a serious newspaper and put money in the savings bank, was in 1840 as good an ideal as could be set before a man. To pursue it gave him rank as a citizen, the promise of a vote, and a share in a solid civilization.

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