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Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
When did one man ever civilize a people?
A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.
The gigantic Gaul derided the Roman soldiers as a band of pigmies.
Thus the liberties of Holland and Flanders waxed, daily, stronger.
A good lawyer is a bad Christian.
History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
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.
