Pastoral Resources

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel.