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….

Man, not the earth, makes civilization..

If you have character, endeavor, personality, courage and the capacity for concentrated labor, you will do what is your destiny – and, perhaps, even ….

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history..

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe..

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..

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed..

The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, m….

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within..

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it..

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised..

The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding..