Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
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.
Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.
The human mind ever longs for occupation.
The first duty of man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.