If you have faced pain and disappointment, you not only value your happiness more highly, but you are prepared for unpredictable exigencies.

He who tastes not, knows not.

We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself-in fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us,-something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book.