[History is] little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon
I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
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
We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
Edward Gibbon
A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince.
Edward Gibbon