"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."
More quotes from the same author
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.