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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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