Historian

Saya melihat dan mencintai.

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

Itu selalu menjadi praktik saya untuk melemparkan paragraf panjang dalam satu cetakan, mencobanya dengan telinga saya, untuk menyimpannya dalam ingatan saya, tetapi untuk menangguhkan tindakan pena sampai saya memberikan polesan terakhir pada pekerjaan saya.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

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.

Gaya adalah gambaran dari karakter.

Hope, the best comfort of our imperfect condition.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.

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.

It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

Keberanian seorang prajurit ditemukan sebagai kualitas manusia yang paling murah dan paling umum.

Saya mendesah sebagai kekasih, saya menuruti sebagai seorang putra.

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.