"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with exc..." — G. M. Trevelyan

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

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.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.