Wisdom about life consists in taking the inevitable ventures of common existence, and glorifying them. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind. Thought makes man wise.
Wisdom makes life endurable.
Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better. It was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled. No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.