I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.

The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to the prince and people, he made a very false estimate of his own character, and of the manners of Antioch. The warmth of the climate disposed the natives to the most intemperate enjoyment of tranquillity and opulence; and the lively licentiousness of the Greeks was blended with the hereditary softness of the Syrians.

In discussing Barbarism and Christianity I have actually been discussing the Fall of Rome.

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.

The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.