We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

It is a wise child that knows its own father and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Education. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.