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.
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 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.