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.

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

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!

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

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

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.