Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance.

One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable.

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

One sticks to an opinion because he prides himself on having come to it on his own, and another because he has taken great pains to learn it and is proud to have grasped it: and so both do so out of vanity.

To learn from our enemies is the best pathway to loving them: for it makes us grateful to them.