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..

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..

The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, ….

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

"History repeats itself" and "History never repeats itself" are about equally true ... We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstance….

A little man often cast a long shadow..

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

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

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 ra….

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

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 ….

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

What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due exacted by every good ….

Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they fail to inter….

I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one….

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interestin….

One half who graduate from college never read another book..

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowl….

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 i….

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that ….

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