According to the law of custom, and perhaps of reason, foreign travel completes the education of an English gentleman.

The imprudent Maximus disregarded these salutary considerations: he gratified his resentment and ambition; he saw the bleeding corpse of Valentinian at his feet; and he heard himself saluted Emperor by the unanimous voice of the senate and people. But the day of his inauguration was the last day of his happiness.

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

The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.

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

The laws of a nation form the most instructive portion of its history

Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.