What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom to serve all, but love only one.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.