Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.