“After he had gone over the mansion, his entertainer asked him what he thought of the splendours it contained; and he in reply did full justice to the riches of its owner and the skill of its decorators, but he added, "Lions would have fared better, had lions been the artists."”
Lecture I, Section 1.
Lectures on the Present Position of Catholics in England (1851)
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“He asks from men all that he has in himself, though even lions would not claim to match that.”
From the poem "To Sayf Al-Dawla" http://web.archive.org/web/20140708175325/http://www.princeton.edu/~arabic/poetry/al_mu_to_sayf.html

Source: Way Station (1963), Ch. 30
Context: Ulysses, he thought, had not told him all the truth about the Talisman. He had told him that it had disappeared and that the galaxy was without it, but he had not told him that for many years its power and glory had been dimmed by the failure of its custodian to provide linkage between the people and the force. And all that time the corrosion occasioned by that failure had eaten away at the bonds of the galactic cofraternity.

“He had thought his wars over. Now he realized peace had been merely a lull.”
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 17 (p. 407)

"A Legacy for the Young from Norman Thomas", Life Magazine, Mar 14, 1969