A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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.

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

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

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.