Life is a festival only to the wise.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.