It's a withdrawal of love, coupled with rejection. That combination is hard to accept, and often triggers feelings of not good enough, failure at rel…

- John Robert Seeley

Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.

- John Robert Seeley

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical…

- John Robert Seeley

History is the school of statesmanship.

- John Robert Seeley

No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink of trowe…

- John Robert Seeley

No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.

- John Robert Seeley

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

- John Robert Seeley

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

- John Robert Seeley

A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden pr…

- John Robert Seeley