A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.
Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
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.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.