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

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.

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.

The ancients were destitute of many of the conveniences of life which have been invented or improved by the progress of industry; and the plenty of glass and linen has diffused more real comforts among the modern nations of Europe than the senators of Rome could derive from all the refinements of pompous or sensual luxury.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.

The active cavalry of Scythia is always followed, in their most distant and rapid incursions, by an adequate number of spare horses, who may be occasionally used, either to redouble the speed, or to satisfy the hunger, of the barbarians. Many are the resources of courage and poverty.