It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world.

The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the Finger of God.

A historian has many duties... the first is not to slander; the second is not to bore

There are men who can think no deeper than a fact.

Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.