We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Religion is not removed by removing superstition.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Who does not know history's first law to be that an author must not dare to tell anything but the truth? And its second that he must make bold to tell the whole truth? That there must be no suggestion of partiality anywhere in his writings? Nor of malice?