Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God.

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.