“If you consider what are called the virtues of mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation
“The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing
“To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course