To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.


Table Talk (1820)


To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.