Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Books are the carriers of civilization... Books are humanity in print.
The power to command frequently causes failure to think.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French.
Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.