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| I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. | | Uncategorized | |
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| In every deed of mischief he [Comenus] had a heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. | | Uncategorized | |
| In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind | | Uncategorized | |
| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
| It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without becoming soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness. | | Uncategorized | |
| Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. | | Reading | |
| My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. | | Uncategorized | |
| My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. | | Uncategorized | |
| Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest | | Uncategorized | |
| Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule | | Government | |
| Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery | | Uncategorized | |
| Our work is the presentation of our capabilities. | | Work | |
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| The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. | | Uncategorized | |
| The clergy successfully preached the doctrines of patience and pusillanimity; the active virtues of society were discouraged; and the last remains of a military spirit were buried in the cloister: a large portion of public and private wealth was con | | Uncategorized | |
| The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. | | Uncategorized | |
| The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation. | | Uncategorized | |
| The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness. | | Loneliness; Thinking | |
