Edward Gibbon Quotes and Quotations
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
I was never less alone than when by myself.,
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
My early and invincible love of reading, I would not exchange for the treasures of India.
I was never less alone than when by myself.,
I was never less alone than when by myself.,
I was never less alone than when by myself.,
I was never less alone than when by myself.,
I was never less alone than when by myself.,
I was never less alone than when by myself.,
I was never less alone than when by myself.,
I was never less alone than when by myself.,