Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house

Silence does not always mark wisdom.