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."

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

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

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