A temperate style is alone classical.
Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Antiquity! I like its ruins better than its reconstructions.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.