It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
Henry FieldingThere are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
Henry Fielding