M. Trevelyan
M. Trevelyan
perfection tea modern
Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.
education reading teaching
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
inspirational motivational teamwork
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
doctors left leg
I have two doctors - my left leg and my right leg
life
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
land village cricket
Village cricket spread fast through the land.
two doctors mind
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 always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.
hiking usual feet-and-walking
After a day's walk everything has twice its usual value.
education degrees diploma
Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
distance men soul
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.
peasants cricket ifs
If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
summer children fun
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 rapid sequence of amusing incidents, each ball a potential crisis! Squire, farmer, blacksmith and labourer with their women and children came to see the fun, were at ease together and happy all the summer afternoon. If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
people ordinary way
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.
intellect evidence historian
The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.