How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
I don't mind your thinking slowly; I mind your publishing faster than you think.
Power, safely defied, touches its downfall.
We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.