[T]he historian and the detective have much in common. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards. – Karl Kraus, translated from German by Harry Zohn

All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men. – John Alfred Spender, The Comments of Bagshot