e room for him; it is the
wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would
devour.--_Bacon._

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls
wisdom.--_Coleridge._

Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in
rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are
naturally our due, as she employs it favorably, and well, in
artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate
the sense of them.--_Montaigne._

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists
in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former
quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, it
is deceptive.--_Whately._

You read of but one wise man, and all that he knew was--that he knew
nothing.--_Congreve._

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of
mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.--_Hazlitt._

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.--_Tennyson._

Seize wisdom ere 'tis torment to be wise; that is, seize wisdom ere she
seizes thee.--_Young._

Wisdom married to immortal verse.--_Wordsworth._

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.--_George Eliot._

Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.--_Euripides._

~Wishes.~--The apparently irreconcilable dissimilarity between our wishes
and our means, between our hearts and this world, remains a
riddle.--_Richter._

~Wit.~--I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit, and
failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch, and tumbling
into it.--_Johnson._

Thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp
sauce.--_Shakespeare._

Wit must grow like fingers. If it be taken from others 'tis like plums
stuck upon blackthorns; there they are for a while, but they come to
nothing.--_Selden._

If he who has little wit needs a master to inform his stupidity, he who
has much frequently needs ten to keep in check his worldly wisdom, which
might otherwise, like a high-mettled charger, toss him to the
ground.--_Scriver._

To place wit above sense is to place superfluity above utility.--_Madame
de Maintenon._

~Woe.~--No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.--_Walter
Scott._

Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.--_Herrick._

So many miseries have crazed my voice, that my woe-wearied tongue is
still.--_Shakespeare._

~Woman.~--Who does know the bent of woman's fantasy?--_Spenser._

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