The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

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• Frederic William Farrar:

  Man's liberty ends, and it ought to end, when that liberty becomes the curse of its neighbors.

• Frederic William Farrar:

  There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best on

• Frederic William Farrar:

  Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it

• Frederic William Farrar:

  There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an

• Frederic William Farrar:

  The decision of such judges as Claudius and his Senate is worth very little in the question of a ma

• Frederic William Farrar:

  Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the phil

• Frederic William Farrar:

  If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

• Frederic William Farrar:

  For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins lai

• Frederic William Farrar:

  But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than

• Frederick Henry Hedge:

  And I seemed to discern a power and meaning in the old, which the more impassioned would not allow.