Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to interest it intelligently in the past, then all their historical learning is valueless except in so far as it educates themselves.

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

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 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.

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