One has to buy experience.

It's no good saying that I ought to have been guided by you five years ago.

Of course I wish I had been, but it wasn't possible.

The question is, do you care to help me now ?" "What's your idea ?" asked Abraham, playing with his watch-guard, a smile as of inward triumph flitting about his lips.
"I have none.

I only know that I've been half-starved for years in the cursed business of teaching, and that I can't stand it any longer.