The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

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

Today's rebel is tomorrow's tyrant.

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

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

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.

Only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

It's as hard to get from almost finished to finished as to get from beginning to almost done.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

The sands of time cannot be stopped. Years pass whether we will them or not... but we can remember. What has been lost may yet live in memories.

Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.

An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

He sounds exactly like Moody," said Harry quietly, tucking the letter away again inside his robes. "'Constant vigilance!' You'd think I walk around with my eyes shut, banging off the walls.

University students are rarely able to cope with universals and death is the most embarrassing universal.

I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

If anything, I have witnessed the ways my art travels, or is rendered more accessible, when sanctioned by or connected to white artists.

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.