Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers.
Frederic FarrarThe address 'Woman' was so respectful that it might be, and was, addressed to the queenliest.
Frederic FarrarLittle self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.
Frederic FarrarFor although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.
Frederic Farrar