6. The heretic was excluded, so far as ecclesiastical dogma could exclude him, from the pale of humanity, from consecrated earth, and from eternal salvation.—Motley.
7. The face of the water in time became a wonderful book—a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice.—S. L. Clemens.
8. Leave a youth idle; and, the more brave and active and capable he is by nature, the more he will thirst for some appointed field for action.—Ruskin.
9. A long, dark hall stretched before me, extending, as well as I could judge in the gloom, entirely across the house.—Page.
10. The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.—Lamb.
11. The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.—Emerson.
12. As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire.—Conan Doyle.
13. In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes.—Macaulay.
14. To me the silence of a summer morning is more touching than all other silences.—De Quincey.
15. But by as much as Kipling surpasses other poets and novelists in originality, by so much does he surpass them in methodical industry.—Hillis.