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.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

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 crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

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.

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