The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

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.

Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

The most distinguished merit of those two officers was their respective prowess, of the one in the combats of Bacchus, of the other in those of Venus.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.