A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
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.
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.