To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score read more

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it read more

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.

Middle age . . . when a man is at the peak of his yearning power. -Wall Stress Journal.

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.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.