No man was ever endowed with a judgment so correct and judicious, in regulating his life, but that circumstances, time and experience, would teach him something new, and apprize him that of those things with which he thought himself the best acquainted, he knew nothing; and that those ideas, which in theory appeared the most advantageous, were found, when brought into practice, to be altogether inapplicable.—Terence.
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.—H.W. Shaw.
It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.—L'Estrange.
To wilful men,
The injuries that they themselves procure,
Must be their schoolmasters.
—Shakespeare.
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.—Franklin.
All is but lip wisdom which wants experience.—Sir P. Sidney.
Extravagance.—He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.—Dr. Johnson.
The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay,
Provides a home from which to run away.
—Young.
Faith.—What we believe, we must believe wholly and without reserve; wherefore the only perfect and satisfying object of faith is God. A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no farther, is none.
Faith is the key that unlocks the cabinet of God's treasures; the king's messenger from the celestial world, to bring all the supplies we need out of the fullness that there is in Christ.—J. Stephens.