In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

Experience and enthusiasm are two fine business attributes seldom found in one individual.

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us.

It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

Life is a series of experience, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.

When you try to step into someone else’s shoes, you’ll find they are either too big or too small.

It is a trite but true definition that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.