If this Punic war was carried on without any effusion of blood, it was owing much less to the moderation than to the weakness of the contending prelates.

Where the subject lies so far beyond our reach, the difference between the highest and the lowest of human understandings may indeed be calculated as infinitely small; yet the degree of weakness may perhaps be measured by the degree of obstinacy and dogmatic confidence.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

The aspiring efforts of genius, or virtue, either in active or speculative life, are measured, not so much by their real elevation, as by the height to which they ascend above the level of their age and country; and the same stature, which in a people of giants would pass unnoticed, must appear conspicuous in a race of pygmies.

A society in which marriage is encouraged and industry prevails soon repairs the accidental losses of pestilence and war.

Europe is secure from any future irruptions of Barbarians; since, before they can conquer, they must cease to be barbarous.