[the Monks'] Minds Were Inaccessible

The Patient And Active Virtues Of A Soldier Are Insensibly Nursed In The Habits And Discipline Of A Pastoral Life.

The Historian Must Have Some Conception Of How Men Who Are Not Historians Behave.

The Fierce And Partial Writers Of The Times, Ascribing All Virtue To Themselves, And Imputing All Guilt To Their Adversaries, Have Painted The Battle Of The Angels And The Demons.

[all] The Manly Virtues Were Oppressed By The Servile And Pusillanimous Reign Of The Monks.

Revenge Is Profitable, Gratitude Is Expensive.