Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.
The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.
Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge -- fitter to bruise than polish.
Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.