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.

[The Jews have] an attitude of hostility and hatred towards all others.

The wicked find it easier to coalesce for seditious purposes than for concord in peace.

Then there is the usual scene when lovers are excited with each other, quarrels, entreaties, reproaches, and then fondling reconcilement.

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.

One who is allowed to sin, sins less

This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated, and to hold out the reprobation of posterity as a terror to evil words and deeds.