If your head is wax, don’t walk in the sun.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
Grasp the subject, the words will follow.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.