While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes of rare attainment, if possible.
