I saw and loved. - Edward Gibbon. View more images...

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. - Edward Gibbon. View more images...

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. - Edward Gibbon. View more images...