[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

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

The awful mysteries of the Christian faith and worship were concealed from the eyes of strangers, and even of catechumens, with an affected secrecy, which served to excite their wonder and curiosity.

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

[But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

The dark cloud, which had been cleared by the Phoenician discoveries, and finally dispelled by the arms of Caesar, again settled on the shores of the Atlantic, and a Roman province [Britain] was again lost among the fabulous Islands of the Ocean.

[The] discretion of the judge is the first engine of tyranny . . .