• The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.

    Martin Farquhar Tupper: The sun of the mind, and the life of the heart is Wisdom. She is pure and full of light, crowning grey hairs with lustre, And kindling the eye of youth with a fire not its own.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper (1867). “Proverbial Philosophy (the First and Second Series) by Martin F. Tupper”, p.6