Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

Rumor is not always wrong

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

Viewed from a distance, everything is beautiful.

Those in supreme power always suspect and hate their next heir.