Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own.

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.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.

It is all too common for people to invest tine into appearance but not in developing their inner man

Life is for living not achieving.

Do you know that charming part of our country which has been called the garden of France - that spot where, amid verdant plains watered by wide streams, one inhales the purest air of heaven?

I am for economy. After that I am for more economy. At this time and under present conditions that is my conception of serving all the people.

When I started off in DC, you didn't get viral first. You got funny first.

Silhouettes are reductions, and racial stereotypes are also reductions of actual human beings.

Oh, those wonder-filled evenings when acting enables me for a short moment to have more life.

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.