My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. – Edward Gibbon

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect. – Edward Gibbon
The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature. – Edward Gibbon
It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. – Henry James Sumner Maine