“How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave escape.
Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors but they are seldom or ever inventors.
He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.
