Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.