Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.