Charles Hamilton Aide quotes
"I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget."
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older.
"I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget."