They talked of spirits,--but they dreaded to be in other company than that of men.

Like orators whom I have heard, when I stood by the Pnyx of Athens, blazing with words like comets in the assembly, and extinguishing their ardour like holiday rockets when they were in the field.

Ho, ho! Demosthenes, my hero-coward, how nimble were thy heels at Chaeronea! And thou art impatient still! Boy, I could tell thee such truths of the past as would make thee the luminary of schools.

But thou lustest only for the shadows of the future.

Thou shalt have thy wish.
But the mind must be first exercised and trained.