Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton

Also found in:

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.

True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.