In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.

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.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

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.

A peculiar sort of chaos looms beneath the pretense of peace.

Those who think they know it ALL don't know what they are missing!

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

In Germany democracy died by the headman's axe. In Britain it can be by pernicious anaemia.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.

Time meanwhile is flying, flying beyond recall.