“With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least respected the security and tranquility of such obedient and profitable brethren; but such is not human nature.” HumansHas BeensNatureSecurityHuman NatureQuietOrdinaryAdvantageExtraordinaryTranquilityProfitableObedientBrethrenOrdinary And ExtraordinaryOrdinary Extraordinary Author:Robert Toombs
“Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse. To discover little faults has been always the particularity of such brains that are a little or not at all above the average. The superior ones keep quiet or say something against the whole and the great minds transform without blaming.” ShouldMindLittlesHas BeensWholeBrainQuietBlameFaultsAverageExcuseSuperiorsGreat Minds Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg