Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.