“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.”
“Today there is no symbolic compensation for old age, no recognition of a specific value: wisdom, perceptiveness, experience, vision.”
“There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.”
“Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.”
“Wisdom is wisdom only to the wise”
“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness; and reverence towards the Gods must be inviolate. Great words of prideful men are ever punished with great blows, and, in old age, teach the chastened to be wise.”