"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost." ― William Ellery Channing Topic(s): Experience More From William Ellery Channing "The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves." "How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success." "Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves." More In Experience "A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."― Elbert Hubbard "No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience."― John Locke "We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel – according to the actor’s marriage to the character."― Kate Mulgrew