Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. — Benjamin Franklin

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. — George Bernard Shaw
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. — Francis Bacon
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life. — Horace
Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness. — Benjamin Franklin
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man. — Benjamin Franklin
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. — Benjamin Franklin