A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.