The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

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

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

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.

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