Experience

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues

I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand

Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it

Look before you leap.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

Life is short, and Art long; the crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult.

Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.

As to going home, shame opposed the best motions that offered to my thoughts, and it immediately occurred to me how I should be laughed at among the neighbours.

The sight was, as I thought, the most delightful that ever I saw.

In the midst of life we are in death.

It is ever the case with men in high places who are before the eye of the public: tempests arise unexpectedly, the existence of which is not suspected by the victim till they burst over his head.

They may be compared with waterspouts, and they pour down on the poet, be he a Schiller or a Dante, an Ovid or a Byron, utterly overwhelming him, rending his heart and body, tearing down his fame, overturning his reputation, uprooting his honour.