If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me! – George Macaulay Trevelyan

History is a bath of blood. – William James, Memories and Studies

[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. – Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History