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

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

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

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.

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.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.