wisdom Quotes

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.