Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.

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

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

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.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.