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

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

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

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.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

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

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.