A reformer should be exempt from the suspicion of interest, and he must possess the confidence and esteem of those whom he proposes to reclaim.

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

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

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

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

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.

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