Experience

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves. (Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1869, American Author & Abolitionist, in Pocket Positives, no page numbering) 21 May 2013