A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.