History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

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.

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

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

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.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.