If in the well and truly made martini DeVoto finds "water of life" and the blessing to the spirit, so also DeVoto's The Hour brings to its readers th….

I will ever be grateful for the wise counsel of a strong and inspired father when he taught, "If you always say no to the first temptation, you will ….

Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say What this tumultuous bo….

Anti-Zionists, last of all, exhibit a distaste for certain words. It was Thomas Hobbes who, anticipating semantics, pointed out that words are counte….

It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise..

Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, th….

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that..

A fool will study for twenty or thirty years and learn how to do something, but a wise man will study for twenty or thirty minutes and become an expe….

Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise..

Fools multiply when wise men are silent..

Avoiding the appearance of queenly behavior is politically wise. But it does American culture no favors if a first lady tries so hard to be average t….

It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure..

I was raised to believe that soldiers were strong and wise and brave and faithful; they didn't lie, cheat, steal or abandon their comrades..

There are more fools than wise men, and even in a wise man there is more folly than wisdom..

The point of the spiritual revolution is not to become a good Buddhist, but to become a wise and compassionate human being, to awaken from our life o….

I hold those wise who know how to be happy..

Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it..

O you virtuous owle, The wise Minerva's only fowle..

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side..

Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to conde….

Loving God, help us remember the birth of Jesus, that we may share in the song of the angels, the gladness of the shepherds, and the worship of the w….