The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
“There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.”
“He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.”
“We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.”
“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.”
“She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”
“Last words are for those fools who believe they have not yet said enough.”
“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.”
“Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.”
