Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Thinking well to be wise: planning well wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.