Amiable Weaknesses Of Human Nature.

If We Are More Affected By The Ruin Of A Palace Than By The Conflagration Of A Cottage, Our Humanity Must Have Formed A Very Erroneous Estimate Of The Miseries Of Human Life.

The Patient And Active Virtues Of A Soldier Are Insensibly Nursed In The Habits And Discipline Of A Pastoral Life.

The Fortune Of Nations Has Often Depended On Accidents . . .

[all] The Manly Virtues Were Oppressed By The Servile And Pusillanimous Reign Of The Monks.

The Laws Of Probability, So True In General, So Fallacious In Particular.