Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; read more

Behold, we live through all things,--famine, thirst,
Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery,
All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst
On soul and body,--but we cannot die,
Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,--
Lo, all things can be borne!

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]

Experience is always sowing the seed of one thing after another.
[Lat., Semper enim ex aliis alia proseminat usus.]

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.