"Les hommes font les lois. Les femmes font les mœurs."

"The standing armies, while a burden on the people, are inadequate for the achievement of great and decisive results i…"

"Abbreviations are the wheels of language, the wings of Mercury. And though we might be dragged along without them, it…"

"I never cared a bit for philology; my chief aim has been throughout to illustrate the social condition of the English…"

"For honour of the Lord God and Our Lady dear And many holy men by Augia's house revered, This book with loving care, …"

"Science does not aim to cover exhaustively the whole of reality, but to construct systems and concepts which will per…"

"Since the normal tendency is to simplify, to trivialize, to eliminate the unfamiliar word or construction, the rule i…"

"Although Champollion was an avowed revolutionary and an enthusiastic Bonapartist, one of his earliest discoveries dis…"

"A corrupted and weakened community breaks down in immense catastrophes; the iron harrow of revolutions crushes men li…"

"To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones."