Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
Old men are cantankerous: they like to get their own way.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.
It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
Some men are born old, and some men never seem so. If we keep well and cheerful, we are always young and at last die in youth even when in years would count as old.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
Young men preen. Old men scheme.