The love of freedom, so often invigorated and disgraced by private ambition, was reduced, among the licentious Franks, to the contempt of order, and the desire of impunity.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Julian sincerely abhorred the system of oriental despotism which Diocletian, Constantine, and the patient habits of four score years, had established in the empire. A motive of superstition prevented the execution of the design which Julian had frequently meditated, of relieving his head from the weight of a costly diadem; but he absolutely refused the title of Dominus or Lord, a word which was grown so familiar to the ears of the Romans, that they no longer remembered its servile and humiliating origin.

The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.