The Fool Wonders, The Wise

Without Tact You Can Learn Nothing.

Whatever They Did, The Elysians Were Careful Never To Be Vehement.

An Insular Country, Subject To Fogs, And With A Powerful Middle Class, Requires Grave Statesmen.

How Very Seldom Do You Encounter In The World A Man Of Great Abilities, Acquirements, Experience, Who Will Unmask His Mind, Unbutton His Brains, And Pour Forth In Careless And Picturesque Phrase All The Results Of His Studies And Observation; His Knowledge Of Men, Books, And Nature. On The Contrary, If A Man Has By Any Chance An Original Idea, He Hoards It As If It Were Old Gold; And Rather Avoids The Subject With Which He Is Most Conversant, From Fear That You May Appropriate His Best Thoughts.

Without Tact You Can Learn Nothing. Tact Teaches You When To Be Silent. Inquirers Who Are Always Questioning Never Learn Anything.