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.

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

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

We are literally children of the earth, and removed from her our spirits wither or run to various forms of insanity. Unless we can refresh ourselves at least by intermittent contact with nature, we grow awry.

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

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.

Every true history must force us to remember that the past was once as real as the present and as uncertain as the future.