The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

The archiepiscopal throne of Macedonius, which had been polluted with so much Christian blood, was successively filled by Eudoxus and Damophilus. Their diocese enjoyed a free importation of vice and error from every province of the empire; the eager pursuit of religious controversy afforded a new occupation to the busy idleness of the metropolis: and we may credit the assertion of an intelligent observer, who describes, with some pleasantry, the effects of their loquacious zeal.

To a lover of books the shops and sales in London present irresistible temptations.

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.

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

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

The Gauls were endowed with all the advantages of art and nature; but as they wanted courage to defend them, they were justly condemned to obey, and even to flatter, the victorious Barbarians, by whose clemency they held their precarious fortunes and their lives.