Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to what our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
Edward Gibbon
-
Next Quote
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
- Edward Gibbon -
Previous Quote
The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true, by the philosophers as equally false, and by the magistrate as equally useful.
- Edward Gibbon -