“images far swifter than these sentences”

“Our progress as a nation can be not swifter than our progress in education.”

“But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.”

“... a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”

“I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow”

“Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.”