Author: Edward Gibbon

Teacher

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.

Edward Gibbon

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.

Power

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Learning

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

Edward Gibbon

Unprovided with original learning unformed in the habits of thinking unskilled in the arts of composition I resolved to write a book.

Government

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Edward Gibbon

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

Friendship

I understand by this passion the union of desire friendship and tenderness which is inflamed by a single female which prefers her to the rest of her sex and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Edward Gibbon

I understand by this passion the union of desire friendship and tenderness which is inflamed by a single female which prefers her to the rest of her sex and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.