The sentiment of fear is nearly allied to that of hatred.

When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.

Actuated by these motives, and apprehensive of disturbing the repose of an unsettled reign, Julian surprised the world by an edict which was not unworthy of a statesman or a philosopher. He extended to all the inhabitants of the Roman world the benefits of a free and equal toleration; and the only hardship which he inflicted on the Christians was to deprive them of the power of tormenting their fellow-subjects, whom they stigmatised with the odious titles of idolaters and heretics.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.