Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
For age is opportunity no less than youth itself.
- Topic: Age
- Location: Mexico, Playa Del Carmen
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These are the arks, the trophies, I erect, That fortify thy name against old age.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Vigor is found in the man who has not yet grown old, and discretion in the man who is not too young.
The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.
He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
