No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.