The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.
Children know from a remarkably early age that things are being kept from them, that grown-ups participate in a world of mysteries.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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 and young disbelieve one another's truths.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.