History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.
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.