“The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.”

“It is not well to make great changes in old age”

“Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending”

“Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.”

“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”

“My birthday!--what a different sound that word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day comes round, less and less white its mark appears. ”