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

Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted the ravages of time and barbarism! And yet even the majestic ruins that are still scattered over Italy and the provinces, would be sufficient to prove that those countries were once the seat of a polite and powerful empire.

It has been sagaciously conjectured, that the artful legislator indulged the stubborn prejudices of his countrymen.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.