To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
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.