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

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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.