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

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

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

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.