The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.

The Australian temper is at bottom grim. It is as though the sun has dried up his nature.

The laws of cricket tell of the English love of compromise between a particular freedom and a general orderliness, or legality.

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

A true batsman should in most of his strokes tell the truth about himself.

A snick by Jack Hobbs is a sort of disturbance of a cosmic orderliness.

Cricket more than any other game is inclined towards sentimentalism and cant.