Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy therefore is education.
Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth and truth only prepared to hear all things and decide upon all things according to evidence we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
It is best to love wisely no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
Events will take their course it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.