In youth one has tears without grief; in age, griefs without tears
The orator is the mouth (os) of a nation.
Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.
It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.