• Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.

    Johann Kaspar Lavater: Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.
    "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.