A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

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

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.

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

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

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.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

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

Don’t believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.

Restoration comes from the Redeemer.

28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.

Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die")

You cannot leave your goodness behind without stumbling into greatness

Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.

Every revolutionary ends up either by becoming an oppressor or a heretic.

I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

Buttons ... check. Dials ... check. Switches ... check. Little colored lights ... check.

We haven't truly had a zeitgeisty, 'songs on the radio' show, since...I want to say "One Night in Bangkok" was the last musical theatre song that charted. That was so long ago.