"Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization." — G. M. Trevelyan

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

The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

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

A little man often cast a long shadow.