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 new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

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

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

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