One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

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

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

Education is the transmission of civilization.