Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.rn

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.

By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above
five-and-twenty.

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!

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

I the heir of all the ages, in the foremost files of time.

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

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