John Lothrop Motley

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.