Thomas Huxley believed that if schools did not ground their pupils in common sense, life’s examinations would be painful.

Ralph Waldo Emerson traced a common thread running throughout English literature.

Among the oldest surviving fragments of Norse poetry are some lines of rugged common sense which any age would do well to heed.

After the devastation of the Great War, calls rose for a new economic and social system, and to put the wisdom of our forebears behind us.

Standing on the dockside with Laertes, who is eager to board ship for Paris, Polonius takes a moment to share some fatherly wisdom.

After witnessing a bus conductor’s battle of wills with the London public, journalist Alfred Gardiner felt obliged to give him a little advice.