QUOTES OF THE WEEK

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
               —Martin Farquhar Tupper

“No words suffice the secret soul to show,
For truth denies all eloquence to woe.”
               —Lord Byron, The Corsair

“The truest eloquence is that which holds us too mute for applause.”
               —Edward Bulwer-Lytton

“They always talk who never think, and who have the least to say.”
               —Matthew Prior

“Talking and eloquence are not the same. To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.”
               —Ben Jonson

“Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue, to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.”
               —Socrates

“A man that speaks too much, and museth but little, wasteth his mind in words, and is counted a fool among men.”
               —Martin Fraquhar Tupper

“He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.”
               —Shakespeare, Love’s Labor’s Lost, V.i.6

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

SEPTEMBER 28, 1066: William the Conqueror invades England, initiating the Norman Invasion that quickly settled the dispute over who would succeed the childless Edward the Confessor as the next king of England.
               William was born in Falaise (now in modern France), the illegitimate son of Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy. Robert died without sons but made William his heir, so William succeeded him as Duke at the age of seven. By the time he was 19, William was a knight, had the backing of Henry I of France, and had successfully controlled his rebellious duchy. In 1051, William paid his cousin king Edward a visit. According to Norman historians, Edward promised to make William his heir, but seemed to forget this promise when he was on his deathbed 15 years later. Instead, the king gave his blessing to (continued on page 2)