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

A Locrian, who proposed any new law, stood forth in the assembly of the people with a cord round his neck, and if the law was rejected, the innovator was instantly strangled.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition, was not denied to the Roman slave; and if he had any opportunity of rendering himself either useful or agreeable, he might very naturally expect that the diligence and fidelity of a few years would be rewarded with the inestimable gift of freedom.

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.

[Peace] cannot be honorable or secure, if the sovereign betrays a pusillanimous aversion to war.