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 good lawyer is a bad Christian.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.