If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.

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

We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.