The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

I would venture to guess that the biggest reason creative types don’t produce isn’t because they don’t have vision… or talent… in most cases, it’s a lack of discipline.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

On the ‚Star,‘ you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. This is useful to anyone. Newspaper work will not harm a young writer and could help him if he gets out of it in time.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

All great achievements require time.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins.

I’d have to be superman to do some of the things I’m supposed to have done, I’ve been at six different places at six different times.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Our work is never over.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Time is bunk.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

My biographers… would like to have my time at the court almost complete before they finish the book. We decided… to flip the order.

Of course, I do everything for money.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.