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.

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.

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

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.

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.

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

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