The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

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.