Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a read more

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.rn

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at read more

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.

A sadder and a wiser man,
He rose the morrow morn.