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

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

If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!

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

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.

Village cricket spread fast through the land.

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