What else goes wrong for a woman-except her marriage?

To an old father, nothing is more sweet than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways are not so tender.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise

Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.