About Edward Gibbon: Edward Gibbon is known for the quality and irony of its prose, its use of primary sources, and its open criticism of organised religion.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
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.
It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
