Had Aylmer reached a profounder wisdom, he need not thus have flung away the happiness which would have woven his mortal life of the selfsame texture with the celestial.
All literature writes the character of the wise man.
It is clear, then, that wisdom is knowledge having to do with certain principles and causes. But now, since it is this knowledge that we are seeking, we must consider the following point: Of what kind of principles and of what kind of causes is wisdom the knowledge?
Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,(…) The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.