He was imposing, even in his pensiveness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood.
He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.
Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of ordinary speech is usually corrected when it's transcribed into written prose.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.
He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.