Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass.--TERENCE.
That man strangely mistakes the manner of spirit he is of who knows not that peaceableness, and gentleness, and mercy, as well as purity, are inseparable characteristics of the wisdom that is from above; and that Christian charity ought never to be sacrificed even for the promotion of evangelical truth.--BISHOP MANT.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.--PSALM 90:12.
WIT.--I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. --MADAME DE SÉVIGNÉ.
Witticisms never are agreeable, which are injurious to others.--FROM THE LATIN.
Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit and flavor and brightness and laughter and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to "charm his pained steps over the burning marle."--SYDNEY SMITH.
Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to.--BISHOP HORNE.
Wit consists in assembling, and putting together with quickness, ideas in which can be found resemblance and congruity, by which to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy.--LOCKE.
There is many a man hath more hair than wit.--SHAKESPEARE.
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. --POPE.
Wit does not take the place of knowledge.--VAUVENARGUES.
To place wit before good sense is to place the superfluous before the necessary.--M. DE MONTLOSIER.
WOMAN.--Honor to women! they twine and weave the roses of heaven into the life of man; it is they that unite us in the fascinating bonds of love; and, concealed in the modest veil of the graces, they cherish carefully the external fire of delicate feeling with holy hands. --SCHILLER.
The world was sad!--the garden was a wild! And man, the hermit, sigh'd--till woman smiled. --CAMPBELL.
A young man rarely gets a better vision of himself than that which is reflected from a true woman's eyes; for God himself sits behind them. --J.G. HOLLAND.
O, if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues, would he see reposing therein?--RICHTER.