Wealth brings strength, strength confidence.Collection: Strength
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.Collection: Legal
A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.
Thus again the Netherlands, for the first time since the fall of Rome, were united under one crown imperial. They had already been once united, in their slavery to Rome.
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
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.Collection: Pyramids
Local self-government…is the life-blood of liberty.Collection: Government
To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.Collection: Men
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.Collection: Funny
A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.Collection: Practice
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken.Collection: Atheist