~ The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later ~
~ Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted ~
~ Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ~
~ I would like to recapture that freshness of vision which is characteristic of extreme youth when all the world is new to it. ~
~ What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew ~
~ Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. ~
~ Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years ~
~ Youth is like spring, an overpraised season ~
~ Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty. ~
~ A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. ~
~ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth ~
~ Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age ~