The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

- Frederic William Maitland

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire …

- Frederic William Maitland

We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future.

- Frederic William Maitland