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

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

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

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

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.

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