You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

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

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

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

The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.

A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.