Edward Gibbon Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• In old age the consolation of hope is reserved for the tenderness of parents, who commence a new life in their children, the faith of enthusiasts, who sing hallelujahs above the clouds; and the vanity of authors, who presume the immortality of their name and writings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Hope, Children, Writing

  Edward Gibbon (1827). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, 1”, p.258

• A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.

  Edward Gibbon

  Children, Judging, Guilt

• [But] the man who dares not expose his life in the defence of his children and his property, has lost in society the first and most active energies of nature.

  Edward Gibbon

  Children, Men, Firsts

  Edward Gibbon (1855). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.155

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