The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
Thus spake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate. To all men upon this Earth, death cometh soon or late. And what better way to die, than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of ones' fathers, and the...
The object of oratory alone is not truth but persuasion.
American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!
Then none was for a party;Then all were for the state;Then the great man helped the poor,And the poor man loved the great;Then lands were fairly proportioned;Then spoils were fairly sold;The Romans we...
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?
The highest intellects like the tops of mountains are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.
His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run though not to soar.
And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?