In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

The Gauls derided the hairy and gigantic savages of the North; their rustic manners, dissonant joy, voracious appetite, and their horrid appearance, equally disgusting to the sight and to the smell.

Yet the arts of Severus cannot be justified by the most ample privileges of state reason. He promised only to betray; he flattered only to ruin; and however he might occasionally bind himself by oaths and treaties, his conscience, obsequious to his interest, always released him from the inconvenient obligation.

The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.