Nathan

“My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.”
― Edward Gibbon

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.”
― Victor Davis Hanson

“The five marks of the Roman decaying culture:

Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth;

Obsession with sex and perversions of sex;

Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original;

Widening disparity between very rich and very poor;

Increased demand to live off the state.”
― Edward Gibbon