George F. Hoar: “Faith is for beings without the certainty of omniscience.”

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…

We are here in the sweet silence of a summer morning, eighteen hundred years after such a scene, and able mentally to catch some glimpse of it; some echo of the storm that has left behind it so ineffaceable a mark.