It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
The wise are above books.
When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.
All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.