It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.
Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.
When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.
A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.