“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”

“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well”

“Who knows, the mind has the key to all things besides”

“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed”

“One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter”

“Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass”