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.

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

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

"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.

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

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

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