Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance with the glory of our empire, the dignity of our name, the customs of our ancestors.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

No one is so old that he does not think he could live another year.