I May Not Hope From Outward Forms

The True Key To The Declension Of The Roman Empire Which Is Not To Be Found In All Gibbon 's Immense Work May Be Stated In Two Words: The Imperial Character Overlaying, And Finally Destroying, The National Character. Rome Under Trajan Was An Empire Without A Nation.

For She Belike Hath Drunken Deep Of All The Blessedness Of Sleep.

I Do Not Wish You To Act From These Truths; No, Still And Always Act From Your Feelings; Only Meditate Often On These Truths That Sometime Or Other They May Become Your Feelings.

Happiness Can Be Built Only On Virtue, And Must Of Necessity Have Truth For Its Foundation.

A People Are Free In Proportion As They Form Their Own Opinions.