Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible — and achieve it, generation after generation.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we’d all be millionaires.