The boxer's ring is the enjoyment of the part of society whose animal nature alone has been developed.

But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?

Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be madeby the reception of beautiful sentiments.

No society can ever be so large as one man.

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books.