History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.