I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, saga…

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.

In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great …