Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

When you're young, you don't have any experience-you're charged up, but you're out of control. And if you're old and you're not charged up, then all you have is memories. But if you're charged and stimulated by what's going on around you, and you also have experience, you know what to appreciate and what to pass by.

At twenty-two many things are allowed which are no longer permitted past thirty.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

O Time, thou that consumest all things! O envious age, whereby all things are consumed!