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| S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880. |
| Medals |
| Medals are so many monuments consigned over to eternity, that they may last when all other memorials of the same age are worn out or lost. Joseph Addison. | 1 |
| Medals give a very great light to history in confirming such passages as are true in old authors, and settling such as are told after different manners. Joseph Addison. | 2 |
| If we consider the different occasions of ancient and modern medals, we shall find that they both agree in recording the great actions and successes in war; allowing still for the different ways of making it and the circumstances that attended it. Joseph Addison. | 3 |
| The Roman medals were their current money: when an action deserved to be recorded on a coin, it was stamped, and issued out of the mint. Joseph Addison. | 4 |
| Among the Romans, to preserve great events upon their coins, when any particular piece of money grew very scarce it was often recoined by a succeeding emperor. Joseph Addison. | 5 |
| What a majesty and force does one meet with in these short inscriptions: are not you amazed to see so much history gathered into so small a compass? Joseph Addison. | 6 |
| One may often find as much thought on the reverse of a medal as in a canto of Spenser. Joseph Addison. | 7 |
| A reverse often clears up the passage of an old poet, as the poet often serves to unriddle the reverse. Joseph Addison. | 8 |
| The figures of many ancient coins rise up in a much more beautiful relief than those on the modern; the face sinking by degrees in the several declensions of the empire till, about Constantine’s time, it lies almost even with the surface of the medal. Joseph Addison. | 9 |
| As a medallist, you are not to look upon a cabinet of medals as a treasury of money, but of knowledge. Joseph Addison. | 10 |
| Nothing can be more pleasant than to see virtuosos about a cabinet of medals, descanting upon the value, rarity, and authenticalness of the several pieces. Joseph Addison. | 11 |
| Medallions, in respect of the other coins, were the same as modern medals in respect of modern money. Joseph Addison. | 12 |
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