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

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

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.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

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.