“The more women there are about, the softer a wise man steps.”

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

“No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or scornful, than the man who is anxious about his virility.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.”

“Nothing will a man rue more than refusal to listen to the wise.”

“The first step towards madness is to think oneself wise.”

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”

“His form was ponderous, and his step was slow;
There never was so wise a man before;
He seemed the incarnate "Well, I told you so!"”

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.”

“253. A foole knowes more in his house then a wise man in another's.”