A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

The ego is willing but the machine cannot go on. It's the last thing a man will admit, that his mind ages.

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

We have conferred a mystic popularity upon officials whose only virtue is their timidity; while our scorn of rebels and reformers is so great that we have ceased to persecute them. The capitals and governments of the world are in the hands of caution; and change comes over them only in the night, unseen.

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.