“A wise man poor
Is like a sacred book that’s never read,—
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.”

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”

“The wise man dies no better or more wisely than the fool. In what way, then, is the wise man wise?”

“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”

“Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.”

“The friendship of one wise man is better than the friendship of a host of fools.”

“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”

“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.”

“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”