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.

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

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

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.

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

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.