The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.