History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon
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
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon