Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

[It] is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.

The mixture of Sarmatic and German blood had contributed to improve the features of the Alani, to whiten their swarthy complexions, and to tinge their hair with a yellowish cast, which is seldom found in the Tartar race.

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.