In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall.
They make solitude, which they call peace.
All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others.
Kindness, so far as we can return it, is agreeable.
Conspicuous by his absence.
Christianity is a pestilent superstition.