Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

In 1940 he was appointed as Master of Trinity College and served in the post until 1951 when he retired. History of England (1926). Clio: A Muse and Other Essays (1913).

". Trevelyan's history is engaged and partisan. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period which I retrospectively shared.