Experience

Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings.

The earth seemed unearthly.

And because you not always can keep your eyes shut there comes the real trouble—the heart pain—the world pain.

I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons.

I had now brought my state of life to be much easier in itself than it was at first, and much easier to my mind, as well as to my body.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time

You can find out more about someone in an hours play than during a year of discussing

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much

Experience is not enough in itself - it has to be weighed, ordered and digested, and we have to draw the right conclusions from it

Experience is the teacher of all things

All experience is an arch to build upon

You take all of the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes