Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
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.