"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

"Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended."

"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

"It is a quiet truth that wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a humble truth that wisdom is the quiet art of recognizing what can be changed and releasing what cannot."

"It took the Metropolitan Museum of Art nearly 50 years to wake up to Pablo Picasso. It didn't own one of his paintings until 1946, when Gertrude Stein bequeathed that indomitable quasi-Cubistic picture of herself - a portrait of the writer as a sumo Buddha - to the Met, principally because she disliked the Museum of Modern Art."

"Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft."