The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.

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

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

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