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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Talk low, talk slow and don’t say too much.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Watch out when you’re getting all you want. Fattening hogs ain’t in luck.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.