I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son.

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

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

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

Passion, interest, or caprice, suggested daily motives for the dissolution of marriage; a word, a sign, a message, a letter, the mandate of a freedman, declared the separation; the most tender of human connections was degraded to a transient society of profit or pleasure.

The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire, with anxious curiosity, whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities, which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.

In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.