Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a read more

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of read more

What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. read more

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.