Cultural creation... begins where chaos and insecurity end.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Education is the transformation of civilisation

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

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.