When Defeat Is Inevitable, It Is Wisest

Nature Herself Has Never Attempted To Effect Great Changes Rapidly.

The Learned Understand The Reason Of Art; The Unlearned Feel The Pleasure.

It Seldom Happens That A Premature Shoot Of Genius Ever Arrives At Maturity.

The Soul Languishing In Obscurity Contracts A Kind Of Rust, Or Abandons Itself To The Chimera Of Presumption; For It Is Natural For It To Acquire Something, Even When Separated From Any One.

We Excuse Our Sloth Under The Pretext Of Difficulty.