But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

Who, being loved, is poor?

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

To rule children by force is the technique of Satan, not of the Savior.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

He who hath many friends hath none.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

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

There is no darkness but ignorance.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I’ve learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.