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

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

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

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 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.