We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.

Monotheism is but imperialism in religion.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.

To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civilization was born at the southeast corner of the Mediterranean.

It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

It is important to bear in mind the now commonly accepted fact that in its primitive stages, religion had nothing to do with morals as understood by us today.

What you persistently think becomes your reality.

Life is made of the past, present and the future. We're shaped by our past, and we're shaping our future with our present.

The only restorative for a guilty conscience is a sight of Jesus suffering on the cross.

Wonder is always difficult until you forgive whoever destroyed your love of surprises.

People give out compliments because it's polite.

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.

School cross country runs started because the rugby pitches were flooded. There was an alternative: extra studying. This meant there were plenty of runners on sports afternoons.

I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck.

Don't resurrect relationships with negative people off of good memories. You will only remind yourself why they became your past in the first place.

He sighed. " I don't think an apology will do, Mercy. Because an apology implies that you wouldn't do it again. And, under the circumstances, you wouldn't do anything differently, would you?" "No.