Thus ambitious spirits in a commonwealth, when they transgress their bounds, are apt to do more harm than good. - Plutarch

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

For many, as Cranton tells us, and those very wise men, not now but long ago, have deplored the condition of human nature, esteeming life a punishment, and to be born a man the highest pitch of calamity; this, Aristotle tells us, Silenus declared when he was brought captive to Midas.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days