“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age”
“It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age”
“Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts, old age is slow in both”
“We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it”
“Age is opportunity no less than youth itself”
“Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed”
“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol”
“Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile”