Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Manners must adorn knowledge, and smooth its way through the world. Like a great rough diamond, it may do very well in a closet by way of curiosity, and also f…

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

'Bob's knowledge of players and the game in general is unsurpassed. Football has known no equal in management or prize-winning, but his modesty and dignity wer…

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The true test of intelligence is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do