Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen.
Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.
In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
To the liberal ideas of the age must be opposed the moral ideas of all ages.
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
The evening of life brings with it its lamps.
In bringing up a child, think of its old age.
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