A little man often cast a long shadow.

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

History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves.

After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.