| James Wood, comp. Dictionary of Quotations. 1899. | | | | Gibbon |
| | | A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute. | 1 |
| All that is human must retrograde, if it do not advance. | 2 |
| Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. | 3 |
| Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. | 4 |
| History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. | 5 |
| The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little circumstances. | 6 |
| The unfortunate are loud and loquacious in their complaints, but real happiness is content with its own silent enjoyment. | 7 |
| The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. | 8 |
| Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. | 9 |
| Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind. | 10 | | |
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