“To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.”— Henri Frédéric Amiel
“The year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”— Hal Borland
“Let us not be so ill-advised, men of Athens, as to throw away the great blessings we have in our hands in our eagerness for what we have not.”— Aeschines
“Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.”— Richard Carlson
“Consider in silence whatever any one says: for it is not every speaker that is a master of his words.”— Cato the Younger