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

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

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

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

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

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.

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.