The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
— Edward Gibbon
Famous Quotes
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
It has been calculated by the ablest politicians that no State, without being soon exhausted, can maintain above the hundredth part of its members in arms and idleness.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
The successors of Charles the Fifth may disdain their brethren of England; but the romance of Tom Jones, that exquisite picture of human manners, will outlive the palace of the Escurial and the imperial eagle of the house of Austria.
— Edward Gibbon
Literature
Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.
It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries.