Experience is the warrant for advice.
But life for them—what know they real of life?—
Naught, naught; and if they give you their advice
They give you naught, or else they give you whims;—
A bachelor teaching dames about their babes!
Or matrons how to guide their grown-up girls!
Alas, their counsels ignorant, partial, false,
Repel toward infidelity the wise;
And half of those they hope will follow them
Make hypocrites or hypochondriacs.”