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

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

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 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.

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

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!

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