A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.Collection: Great
It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.Collection: Tyrants
If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even do it well.Collection: Character
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.Collection: Past
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.Collection: Men
Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.Collection: Trying
Man, not the earth, makes civilization.Collection: Men
The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.Collection: Character
The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.Collection: Science
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.Collection: Writing
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.Collection: Order