It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

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.

It is a great proof of talents to be able to recall the mind from the senses, and to separate thought from habit.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will steal you blind.

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?