I will never pretend we are all equal, I will never appeal to anything but the highest in an audience.

So they can throw me out if they will!" And he stretched out his long legs and clasped his hands under his head--so that to Halcyone he seemed seven foot tall.
"Tityus" she thought was a very apt name for him, and she wondered if he would jump if the vulture suddenly gave a gnaw at his liver! "You are an idealist, John," said Mr.Carlyon.

"All this might have been of some use as a principle of propaganda before the franchise was so low, but now the mediocrity is our master--so of what use?
If you talked so you would but preach to empty benches." "I will not do that--I will make them listen.

My point is that everyone can rise if he wishes, but until he has done so in fact, there is no use in his pretending in words that he has.

I would explain to them the reason of things.