Death tripped down the corridor, changing step, struck out here and there, danced pirouettes; often I felt his breath on my face when he was miles away; often I fell asleep and dreamed while he stood leaning over my bed.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

In the index to the six hundred odd pages of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History, abridged version, the names of Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes and Newton do not occur yet their cosmic quest destroyed the medieval vision of an immutable social order in a walled-in universe and transformed the European landscape, society, culture, habits and general outlook, as thoroughly as if a new species had arisen on this planet.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.