Good resolves, pure thoughts, and noble aspirations--new sensations to me, I blush to confess--bubbled in my heart, and I made a mental prayer, "If this is folly, may God banish wisdom." What is there, after all is said, in wisdom, that men should seek it?
Has it ever brought happiness to its possessor?
I am an old man at this writing.

I have tasted all the cups of life, and from the fulness of my experience I tell you that the simple life is the only one wherein happiness is found.

When you permit your heart and your mind to grow complex and wise, you make nooks and crannies for wretchedness to lodge in.

Innocence is Nature's wisdom; knowledge is man's folly.
An hour before noon our patience was rewarded when we saw the Haddon Hall coach drive into the courtyard with Dawson on the box.

I tried to make myself believe that I did not wish Lady Crawford were ill.