You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Paradise is where I am

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

It does not require great art, or magnificently trained eloquence, to prove that Christians should tolerate each other. I, however, am going further: I say that we should regard all men as our brothers. What? The Turk my brother? The Chinaman my brother? The Jew? The Siam? Yes, without doubt; are we not all children of the same father and creatures of the same God?