Quote: My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: I was never less alone than when by myself. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: 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. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: Style is the image of character. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative. [Edward Gibbon]
Quote: A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. [Edward Gibbon]