AGES
OF MAN

Youth is a blunder;

manhood a struggle;

old age a regret.

Benjamin Disraeli

Forty is the old age of youth;

fifty the youth of old age.

Victor Hugo

When, as a child, I laughed and wept,

Time crept.

When, as a youth, I dreamed and talked,

Time walked.

When I became a full-grown man,

Time ran.

And later, as I older grew,

Time flew.

Soon I shall find, while traveling on,

Time gone.

Will Christ have saved my soul by then?

Amen.

Inscription on clock in Chester Cathedral, England

Youth is made rich by its dreams of the future; age is made poor by its regrets for the past.

Rochepèdre