The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precious good, whose delicate complex of order and freedom, culture and peace, can at any moment be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

Education is the transmission of civilization.

The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

Wherever men do things, other men will arise who will explain to them how things should be done.