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

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

I haven’t written my own epitaph, and I’m not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

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.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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

Some minds remain open long enough for the truth not only to enter but to pass on through by way of a ready exit without pausing anywhere along the route.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

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

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.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

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

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Error is always more busy than truth.

There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.