“The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of”

“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”

“Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it”

“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”

“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience”