My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
Religion is a mere question of geography.
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
The vain, inconstant, rebellious disposition of the people [of Armorica], was incompatible either with freedom or servitude.
A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.