It’s hard for me to believe that I will die. Because I’m bubbling in a frigid freshness. My life is going to be very long because each instant is. The impression is that I’m still...

Yanked out of the present, Adam discovered the richness of the past in people’s stories.

There is a strange idea abroad that in every subject the ancient book should be read only by the professionals, and the amateur should content himself with modern books.

The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and ‘presentism’ is his original sin.