The person of wisdom is the person of years.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.

Old age comes at a bad time. -San Banducci.

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young read more

The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of read more

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows read more

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the read more

In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
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He has grown aged in this world of woe,
In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life.
So that no wonder waits him.