G. M. Trevelyan said this quote

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.

~ G. M. Trevelyan

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

~ G. M. Trevelyan

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

~ G. M. Trevelyan

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

~ G. M. Trevelyan