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.

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.

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.

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

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