Lucien Febvre quotes:

A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

History is the daughter of time.

It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.