A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

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.