The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBelieve me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
Noah Feldman