Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

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.

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

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

Silence does not always mark wisdom.