كان الإسكندر هو الذي ساعد على إدخال عادة حلق اللحية في أوروبا، وحجته في ذلك أن اللحية تمكن العدو من القبض على صاحبها. ولعل أكبر آثاره في التاريخ هو ه… - Will Durant

He who leaves his home in search of knowledge walks in the path of God … and the ink of the scholar is holier than the blood of the martyr”;

So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it — perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts.

Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.