Wisdom prepares for the worst but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

Much of the wisdom of one age is the folly of the next.

To keep your secret is wisdom to expect others to keep it is folly.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom and perhaps more malice than either that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently or that they are necessarily determined to folly I must by no means grant it.

Purity engenders Wisdom Passion avarice and Ignorance folly infatuation and darkness.

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly better than wise people for their wisdom.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

At sixty I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty but I know a great deal more about folly.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom no clock can measure.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly vice and madness without tuition or restraint.