Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

The errors of a wise man are literally more instructive than the truths of a fool. The wise man travels in lofty, far-seeing regions; the fool in low-lying, high-fenced lanes; retracing the footsteps of the former, to discover where he diviated, whole provinces of the universe are laid open to us; in the path of the latter, granting even that he has not deviated at all, little is laid open to us but two wheel-ruts and two hedges.