 All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
– Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
Category Archives: Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon – History is a registry of crimes and follies
| History . . . is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
– Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
Edward Gibbon – Offences worse than the punishments
| Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigor of penal law is obliged to give way to the common feelings of mankind.
– Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
Edward Gibbon – The banishment of alchemy
| Philosophy, with the aid of experience, has at length banished the study of alchemy; and the present age, however desirous of riches, is content to seek them by the humbler means of commerce and industry.
– Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) |
