Persuasion Is The Resource Of The Feeble;

It Has Always Been My Practice To Cast A Long Paragraph In A Single Mould, To Try It By My Ear, To Deposit It In My Memory, But To Suspend The Action Of The Pen Till I Had Given The Last Polish To My Work.

The Historian Must Have Some Conception Of How Men Who Are Not Historians Behave.

Language Is The Leading Principle Which Unites Or Separates The Tribes Of Mankind.

While The Romans Languished Under The Ignominious Tyranny Of Eunuchs And Bishops, The Praises Of Julian Were Repeated With Transport In Every Part Of The Empire, Except In The Palace Of Constantius.

It Is The Common Calamity Of Old Age To Lose Whatever Might Have Rendered It Desirable.