My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

Both Moscow and [Kiev], the modern and the ancient capitals, were reduced to ashes [by the Tartars]; a temporary ruin, less fatal than the deep, and perhaps indelible, mark, which a servitude of two hundred years has imprinted on the character of the Russians.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

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.

But [the Arabs'] friendship was venal, their faith inconstant, their enmity capricious: it was an easier task to excite than to disarm these roving barbarians; and, in the familiar intercourse of war, they learned to see, and to despise, the splendid weakness both of Rome and of Persia.

But the sages of Greece and Rome turned aside from the awful spectacle, and, pursuing the ordinary occupations of life and study, appeared unconscious of any alterations in the moral of physical government of the world.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.