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.

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.

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 laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.