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.

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

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.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.