I do not admire people who are wise after the event. I would rather be impaled on the other horn of the dilemma and be called one of the "I told you so's."

But on the whole it is wise in human affairs, and in the government of men, to separate pomp from power.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible.

Wise and prudent men - intelligent conservatives - have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.