The bravest commanders do not allow me to linger any longer on these frivolous stories. His fellow citizens were angry with Epaminondas,...

[Story as recorded by Julius Paris: Scipio Africanus would not take part in public or private business without first having spent some...

“…no one excels in big things who fails in small things.” Quintilian. Quintilian, The Orator’s Education Books 1-2. Loeb Classical...

There was in the field one Lucilius, an excellent man, and a friend of Brutus, who, seeing some barbarian horse taking no notice of any...

The veteran of First Baptist Church building care, however, is Clarence C. Harris, who began November 1, 1926, the same afternoon he first applied for the job. Harris has the distinction of having fallen through the auditorium ceiling in 1936, and living to tell it.

It is told of him, that being informed of a certain Marsian, eminent for courage and good birth, who had been speaking underhand with some of the soldiers about deserting, Fabius was so far from using severity against him, that he called for him, and told him he was sensible of the neglect that had been shown to his merit and good service, which, he said, was a great fault in the commanders who reward more by favour than by desert; “but henceforth, whenever you are aggrieved,