I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
“The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.”
“Certain it is that their power increased always in an exact proportion to the weakness of the Caliphate, and, without doubt, in some of the most distracted periods of the Arabian rule, the Hebrew Princes rose into some degree of local and temporary importance.”