...................................Edward Gibbon:
Conversation enriches understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.
The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself
There exists in human nature a strong propensity to depreciate the advantages, and to magnify the evils, of the present times.
It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy.
Instead of inquiring why the Roman empire was destroyed, we should rather be surprised that it had subsisted so long.
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