If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished. — Barbara W. Tuchman

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few?

On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.