“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
“I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.”
“Every time I thought that I was "put together," I realized that we're always putting ourselves together, gathering the world in, letting it sift down and form us.”
“The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom”
“this wasted time i have found by constant experience to be as indispensable as sleep.”
“It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .”