A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

Our toil is lessened, and our wealth is increased, by our dominion over the useful animals . . .

Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.

These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

The division of the Roman world between the sons of Theodosius marks the final establishment of the empire of the East, which, from the reign of Arcadius to the taking of Constantinople by the Turks, subsisted one thousand and fifty-eight years in a state of premature and perpetual decay.