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

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with its rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis!

A little man often cast a long shadow.

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

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.