If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?
For if the mystery concealed of old is made manifest to the Apostles through the prophetic writings, and if the prophets, being wise men, understood what proceeded from their own mouths, then the prophets knew what was made manifest to the Apostles.
I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn’t allow us to waste anything.
I think it’s always wise to be concerned about any of the characters in ‘Star Wars,’ right?
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.
