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 do it well.

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

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

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

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

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.