“ Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. ”
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
~ Plutarch
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome.
For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised a sort of passion in him for surmounting difficulties; as if it were not enough to be always victorious in the field, unless places and seasons and nature herself submitted to him.
