“After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.”
“I prefer to believe in things which obviously exist, even though I cannot explain them. It is the humbler and, I think, the wiser attitude.”
“...people always grow more foolish, unless they take care to grow wiser and wiser...”
“Its the body grows older...The Mind grows wiser...stronger...”
“An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.”
“After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.”