Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.
The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
Man, not the earth, makes civilization.
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.
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.