Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

The love of liberty was the ruling passion of these Germans; the enjoyment of it, their best treasure; the word that expressed that enjoyment the most pleasing to their ear. They deserved, they assumed, they maintained the honourable epithet of Franks or Freemen; which concealed, though it did not extinguish, the peculiar names of the several states of the confederacy.

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

As long as the same passions and interests subsist among mankind, the questions of war and peace, of justice and policy, which were debated in the councils of antiquity, will frequently present themselves as the subject of modern deliberation.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.