Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.
From Edward Gibbon
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
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