Excerpt from Irish Orators and Oratory
Every anthologist, even the worst, is in the afflicting position of that antique sophist, the fore-runner of all the tribe of company-promoters, who spent so much of his life trying to sell a house on the basis of a specimen brick. In the region of poetry which is, of its very nature, an exaltation, as brief as it is intense, he may avoid abject failure. In prose literature, too, the prospector may hope to come upon passages, quintessential and yet true to type, which can be broken off from the central mass without losing their character. Your author and worker in print has this further advantage: he writes for the individual, and the spiritual values in which he trades are, if not universal, at least partly stripped of localism and transience. But oratory is, by contrast, complex, diffuse, netted beyond release in impermanent details. Its triumph is of the moment, momentary.
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