John Robert Seeley Quotes
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No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.
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It is a favourite maxim of mine that history, while it should be scientific in its method, should pursue a practical object. That is, it should not merely gratify the reader's curiosity about the past, but modify his view of the present and his forecast of the future,
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... Property can exit only under the guardianship of the State.
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Commerce in itself may favour peace, but when commerce is artificially shut out by a decree of Government from some promising territory, then commerce just as naturally favours war.
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The difficulty of determining whether a man is or is not good has now become a commonplace of moralists and satirists. It is almost impossible to discover any test which is satisfactory, and the test which is actually applied by society is known to be unsatisfactory in the extreme.
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Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.
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... The chief forces which hold a community together and cause it to constitute one State are three, common nationality, common religion, and common interest.
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We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.