We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ.
Very good laws may be ill timed.
The Christian religion is a stranger to mere despotic power. The mildness so frequently recommended in the Gospel is incompatible with the despotic rage.