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

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

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

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

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.

Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.