Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.