“Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”– John Denham Related Quotes “It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”– Desiderius Erasmus “In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.”– Thomas Huxley “A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”– Aristophanes