No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

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 laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

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

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

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