His thoughts look through his words. Ben Jonson.
His time is for ever, everywhere his place. Cowley.
His tongue could make the worse appear the 15 better reason. Milton.
His tongue / Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear / The better reason, to perplex and dash / Maturest counsels. Milton.
His very foot has music in 't, / As he comes up the stair. W. J. Mickle.
His wit invites you by his looks to come, / But when you knock, it never is at home. Cowper.
His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles. Two Gent. of Verona, ii. 7.
Historia quo quomodo scripta delectat—History, 20 however written, is always a pleasure to us. Pliny.
Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. Carlyle.
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Bacon.