Great Throughts Treasury

"No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic."

"Principles last forever; but special rules pass away with the things and conditions to which they refer."

"Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting. "

"We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. "

"A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the booksto understand what you are talking about"