A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.