Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.

The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.