“ Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ”
Day after day, day after day,We stuck, nor breath nor motion;As idle as a painted shipUpon a painted ocean.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
