The Present Offers Itself To Our Touch

As Geographers, Sosius, Crowd Into The Edges Of Their Maps Parts Of The World Which They Do Not Know About, Adding Notes In The Margin To The Effect That Beyond This Lies Nothing But Sandy Deserts Full Of Wild Beasts, And Unapproachable Bogs.

It Is Easy To Utter What Has Been Kept Silent, But Impossible To Recall What Has Been Uttered.

It Is Wise To Be Silent When Occasion Requires, And Better Than To Speak, Though Never So Well.

If Nature Be Not Improved By Instruction, It Is Blind; If Instruction Be Not Assisted By Nature, It Is Maimed; And If Exercise Fail Of The Assistance Of Both, It Is Imperfect.

To Find Fault Is Easy; To Do Better May Be Difficult.