I Was Never Less Alone Than When

There Is More Pleasure To Building Castles In The Air Than On The Ground.

Ignorant Of The Arts Of Luxury, The Primitive Romans Had Improved The Science Of Government And War.

The Most Distinguished Merit Of Those Two Officers Was Their Respective Prowess, Of The One In The Combats Of Bacchus, Of The Other In Those Of Venus.

The Emperor Of The East Was No Longer Guided By The Wisdom And Authority Of His Elder Brother, Whose Death Happened Towards The End Of The Preceding Year: And, As The Distressful Situation Of The Goths Required An Instant And Peremptory Decision, He Was Deprived Of The Favourite Resource Of Feeble And Timid Minds; Who Consider The Use Of Dilatory And Ambiguous Measures As The Most Admirable Efforts Of Consummate Prudence.

My Early And Invincible Love Of Reading I Would Not Exchange For All The Riches Of India.