To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

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

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.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

When did one man ever civilize a people?

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

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.