Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.

The young man reveres men of genius, because, to speak truly, they are more himself than he is.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

All history is but the lengthened shadow of a great man.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity