Style is the image of character.

Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.

Instead of pressing, with the foremost of the crowd, into the palace of Constantinople, Libanius calmly expected his arrival at Antioch; withdrew from court on the first symptoms of coldness and indifference; required a formal invitation for each visit; and taught his sovereign an important lesson, that he might command the obedience of a subject, but that he must deserve the attachment of a friend.

Does there exist a single instance of a saint asserting that he himself possessed the gift of miracles?

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

I darted a contemptuous look at the stately models of superstition.