Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.

Historic continuity with the past is not a duty, it is only a necessity

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.