"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored"

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course"

"A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity"

"Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed"

"He was a wise man who invented beer"

"Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late"

"No man was ever wise by chance"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human"

"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"