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

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

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

"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.

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