"The Mediterranean Sea with its various branches, penetrating far into the great Continent, forms the largest gul of t…"

"The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines."

"All power, as well as all the impotence of democracy is based on faith"

"The czech skull is impervious to reason, but it is scuceptible to blows."

"It is no easy task for a state any more than for a man to become reconciled to insignificance; it is the duty and rig…"

"..personal credit was guaranteed in the most summary and extravagant fashion; for the law entitled the creditor to tr…"

"For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple…"

"[the] qualities -those of good soldiers but bad citizens - explain the historical fact, that the celts have shaken st…"

"Let us look back on the events which fill up the ten years of the Sullan restoration. No one of the movements, extern…"

"The great problem of man, how to live in conscioues harmony with himself, with his neighbor, and with the whole to wh…"