No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

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.

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.

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.

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

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.