wisdom Quotes

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

General consultant to mankind.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.