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

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.

Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.

Soprano basso even the contralto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto.

I am criticizing a culture that has sold the big lie that 'Mom doesn't matter.'

I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on.

Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.

A single inattention may lose a chess game, whereas a single successful approach to a problem, among many which have been relegated to the wastebasket, will make a mathematician's reputation.

Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute

Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.