George F. Hoar: “Let no man assert that I refer to the evils of those days as either excuse or palliation for the evils of ours.”

We speak of a light that makes darkness visible; and similarly there are sounds that deepen the long intervals of silence with which they alternate.

It is not too much to say that most of the main roads in England are Roman; but the very continuity of their use has caused this to be overlooked.

We bring you a more costly and precious gift than any jewel or diadem, though it came from an Emperor's treasury.

The language Statius uses is more simple than mine; but this is substantially the picture he gives: and I know of nothing that so impresses on the imagination the thunder of the power of the Roman Empire as this creation in the wilderness…