Looking for two quotations
What's-his-name (my long-suffering spouse) maintains that you can find everything you want online. I thoroughly disagree! All afternoon I searched in vain for the following:
--a line from Edward Gibbon in which he comments on the very brief period of the Roman Empire in which there was unprecedented religious tolerance. He uses the term "open-minded(ness)" in the quotation. (I don't mean the often cited:
Quote:
"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true. . ."
That's not the one I need.
The second quotation I can't find comes not from an account of ancient Rome but from early America. I'm pretty sure the line originated with deTocqueville, less confident that it was Henry Adams. The quotation goes like this:
Quote:
"America is the worst country in the world in which to be poor."
Again, it seems the answers can't be found by "Googling." But since I know my fellow LitNutters are so knowledgeable and learnéd, perhaps they can help me out.
Thanks!