Remarkable Speeches.

Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less.

Of Hearing. 6.

It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration,—nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.

Of Hearing. 6.

Antiphanes said merrily, that in a certain city the cold was so intense that words were congealed as soon [[739]]as spoken, but that after some time they thawed and became audible; so that the words spoken in winter were articulated next summer.[739:1]

Of Man's Progress in Virtue.

As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum.

Of Man's Progress in Virtue.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel.