To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. 784
I’ve got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn’t going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you. 2.08K
It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else estrange them. 624
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly 675
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. 557
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. 665
Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. 645
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. 691
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. 2.03K
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine. 1.3K
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. 703
