G. M. Trevelyan — English Historian born on February 16, 1876, died on July 21, 1962

George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM CBE FRS FBA , was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927 to 1943. He served as Master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951. In retirement, he was Chancellor of Durham University... (wikipedia)

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
A little man often cast a long shadow.
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.