Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.

To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.

Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.

Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.