To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. — William Samuel Johnson

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. — Winston Churchill
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. — William Samuel Johnson
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. — William Samuel Johnson
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. — William Samuel Johnson