The Archive is the collection of all material traces left behind by a particular historical period and culture which one can use to deduce a historical a priori.

Archive is a kind of thought in which the eye goes beyond things to visibilities and language goes beyond words to utterances.

Habit is the invisible architecture of daily life.

Habit is that into which uncertainty disappears.

Habit is the second nature which destroys the first.

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.

An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.

The Institution is necessary to the nation — Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

The Institution is what springs up where there is a lull of truth, just as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind.

An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley, Abolition, of Clarkson.