Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."

The greatest men of a nation are those it puts to death.

As soon as sacrifice becomes a duty and necessity to mankind. I see no limit to the horizon which opens before him.

To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes.

History is as much an art as a science.

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

Blessed are the blind, for they know not enough to ask why.