The fool inherits, but the wise must get

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave

Thou art death's fool;For him thou labour'st by thy flight to shunAnd yet runn'st toward him still.

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.