~ Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power ~
~ All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself ~
~ You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. ~
~ Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them ~
~ Experience is only half of experience ~
~ Experience proves that none is so cruel as the disillusioned sentimentalist ~
~ Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life ~
~ Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas ~
~ Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much ~
~ Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. ~
~ Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. ~
~ Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. ~