The influence of geographic factors diminishes as technology grows. The character and contour of a terrain may offer opportunities for agriculture, mining, or trade, but only the imagination and initiative of leaders, and the hardy industry of followers, can transform the possibilities into fact...Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

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.

It is good a philosopher should remind himself, now and then, that he is a particle pontificating on infinity.

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.

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

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