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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

If pizza brings you joy, then by all means, love that pizza like your life depends on it. Because it does.

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

I can hear people smile.

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.