Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. – Josh Billings
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. – Josh Billings

Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. – Josh Billings
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been. – Josh Billings
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never really happen to them. – Josh Billings
One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can. – Josh Billings
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgins lot. – Arnold Bennett
With penetrating insight, the mystics will tell us that when we have a desire for a certain thing, a certain experience, and we fulfill that desire, the happiness we feel is not something given by that thing or experience; it is due to having no craving for a little while. – Eknath Easwaran, The Mantram Handbook