Quote by Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)

• We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.

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

• All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

• History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.