Wisdomis what you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred totalk.

Nothing makes it easier to resist temptation than a proper upbringing, a sound set of values.

Thepast is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets andre-explains what has happened.

All our rightousnesses are like filthy rags

Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.

A goodpreparation takes longer than the delivery.

Old wood best of burn, old friend to trust and old authors to read.

A quiettongue shows a wise head.

Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

The last function of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which surpass it.