G. M. Trevelyan

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

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.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

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

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

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