I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.